Verifying Provisioned Subscribers and Unlocking Entities

Verifying Provisioned Subscriber Settings---Overview and Purpose

Steps for Verifying Provisioned Subscriber Settings

Unlocking Entities---Overview and Purpose

Guidelines for Unlocking Entities

Steps for Unlocking Entities

Unlocking a Subscriber on a LIM

Unlocking a LIM Port and CAP ATU-C port

Unlocking a LIM Module and CAP ATU-C Module

Verifying Provisioned Subscribers and Unlocking Entities

This chapter includes instructions for verifying the subscriber settings that you completed in the preceding chapters and for unlocking the entities that you locked when completing the provisioning tasks. These two tasks are the final steps for provisioning subscribers.

This chapter includes the following sections:

Verifying Provisioned Subscriber Settings---Overview and Purpose

Before you unlock ViewRunner entities and exit the system, you should verify the provisioning settings that you have added or modified for subscribers. You should also check the PVC settings.

Steps for Verifying Provisioned Subscriber Settings

Complete the following steps to verify the settings that you have provisioned for subscribers:

Step 1 Right-click on the CAP ATU-C module whose settings you want to verify to open the Module menu.

Step 2 Choose Port Properties and Status to open the Port tab on the Module Properties dialog box shown in Figure 5-1.

Figure 5-1: Module Properties Dialog Box---Port Status Tab

Step 3 Check to see whether the CPE is trained by looking at the ATU-C Port fields.

Step 4 Verify the upstream and downstream settings.

Next, you should verify all subscriber PVCs by completing the following steps:

Step 1 Right- or double-click on the chassis frame or edge, and choose View All PVCs from the menu to open the View All PVCs dialog box, shown in Figure 5-2.

Figure 5-2: Subscriber PVCs Dialog Box

Step 2 Scroll across the Subscriber PVCs dialog box and check the settings for each of the following fields:

Subscriber VCI/VPI
Network VCI/VPI
Priority
Latency

Step 3 Click Close when you have finished verifying the subscriber PVC settings.

Before you can place subscribers back into service, you must unlock the entities that you locked in the previous sections.

Unlocking Entities---Overview and Purpose

Once you have entered and verified all port, subscriber, and VCI/VPI data, you must unlock any affected entities to place them into service. Modules and ports cannot provide transmission service in a Locked state. Unlocking entities requires you to click Unlocked in the appropriate dialog boxes, and then click Apply.

Putting a logical pool and provisioned subscriber into service requires unlocking the following associated entities:

Dual-port CAP ATU-C module
Appropriate ports on the dual-port CAP ATU-C module
LIM module
Appropriate ports on the LIM
Subscriber on a LIM

Guidelines for Unlocking Entities

Consider the following guidelines for unlocking entities:

If you do not unlock the subscriber, a green blinking LED appears on the LIM port when the CPE tries to train for service. If this occurs, the Cisco 6100 Series system does not grant service to the requesting customer.
Each subscriber must remain locked for you to define PVC information. Once the PVC information is defined, you can unlock the subscriber.

Steps for Unlocking Entities

This section includes the following set of instructions. You can unlock entities in any order that is most convenient for you. The sequence presented here would be intuitive if you have just completed provisioning subscribers.

Unlocking a Subscriber on a LIM

To unlock a subscriber, follow these steps:

Step 1 Position the cursor on the LIM port that you want to unlock and right-click to access the Module menu.

Step 2 Choose Port Properties and Configuration.

The Port tab and then the Configuration tab on the Module Properties dialog box opens, as shown in Figure 5-3.

Figure 5-3: Module Properties Dialog Box---Port Configuration Tab

Step 3 Click Edit Subscriber.

The Subscriber Properties dialog box opens (Figure 5-4).

Figure 5-4: Subscriber Properties Dialog Box

Step 4 Click Unlocked.

Step 5 Click Apply.

ViewRunner unlocks the subscriber for service.

Step 6 Click OK to return to the LIM Properties dialog box.

The subscriber is now unlocked for service.

Note If you do not unlock the subscriber, a green blinking LED appears on the LIM port when the customer premises equipment (CPE) tries to train for service. If this occurs, the Cisco 6100 Series system does not grant service to the requesting customer.

Unlocking a LIM Port and CAP ATU-C port

Complete the following steps to unlock a port:

Step 1 Place your cursor over the module that you want to unlock and right-click to access the Module menu.

Step 2 Choose Port and Configuration from the Module menu.

The Port tab and then the Configuration tab on the Module Properties dialog box opens shown in Figure 5-5.

Figure 5-5: CAP ATU-C Module Properties Dialog Box

Click Unlocked.

Step 3 Click Apply for ViewRunner to unlock that port for service.

Step 4 Click OK to return to the Chassis View.

Unlocking a LIM Module and CAP ATU-C Module

Complete the following steps to unlock a module:

Step 1 Place your cursor over the module that you want to unlock and right-click to access the Module menu.

Step 2 Choose Module Properties and Configuration.

The Module Configuration tab on the Module Properties dialog box opens shown in Figure 5-6.

Figure 5-6: CAP ATU-C Module Properties Dialog Box

Step 3 Click Unlocked.

Step 4 Click Apply for ViewRunner to unlock that module for service.

Step 5 Click OK to return to the Chassis View.

Once you have unlocked all of the entities that were locked when you provisioned service, you are ready to use the Cisco 6100 Series system.

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