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To implement the Graceful OOS procedure right click on the Physical Node Object in ClientView and select Graceful Out of Service or click on the Graceful Out of Service button when Physical IMG is selected:
A pop up window as shown below will appear displaying the Overall Progress of how many channels are active and how many have been torn down. When this gets to 100% all Channels will be Out Of Service:
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At the channel level the TDM channels are selected within each channel group. Graceful Shutdown of IP channels is accomplished by using the IP Traffic Management feature and setting the Max Number of Simultaneous Sessions to zero.
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The Graceful Shutdown can be accomplished on a single channel or range of channels. To take a single channel or range of channels OOS, highlight either the b-channels in ISDN, the cics in SS7, or the CAS Channels in CAS under each channel group. See screen capture below detailing each channel groups circuits
Once one of the following circuits are selected, the Object table will display all the circuits along with there service state. Highlight the spans that you would like to take OOS. Below is screen capture of ISDN b-channels being taken Gracefully out of service:
The selected channels will go OOS:
To bring channels back into service you can highlight the channels and then right click and select 'In Service'. This will bring the highlighted channels back into service.
To bring all channels on the Node back into service right click on IMG EMS pane and select Graceful Out Of Service as explained in the Node Level above. This will open the Graceful Out Of Service window. Once open select INS and all channels TDM and IP will be brought back into service. This is an easy way of bringing all channels back into service globally.
Related Topics:
IMG 1010 - IP Traffic Management