Re: [asterisk-users] Error Counters on PRI Circuit
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 04:09:33PM -0500, Lyle Giese wrote: Around here, the telco locks that cabinet and there is a user id/password required to use that craft interface. (I have a key, but then I worked for the telco for 23 years and have a few insider tools laying around) They are indeed barrel locked, but all on the same key, and some kind soul left us one (and the recent special service guy didn't take it), and he tells me, off the record, that Verizon doesn't appear to password the interface in this market, so far as he knows. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Error Counters on PRI Circuit
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 05:20:27PM -0400, Alex Balashov wrote: Not only that, but Jay's suggestion is going to give you the performance monitoring data off the smartjack itself, not off of any portion of the span beyond the smartjack. So, if you are receiving errors on the part that runs to the CSU/DSU, or, if you have an outboard CSU/DSU, also the DTE portion beyond it, well, you won't see those. You might get lucky and see errors in transmission (arrival at the smartjack from the customer data side) since many error-causing phenomena tend to apply symmetrically, but maybe not. This is an excellent point that I did indeed overlook. Our demarcs are extended, and I might myself get bitten by this. Guess I'm gonna go hit eBay. :-) These things are smart CSU's, right? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Error Counters on PRI Circuit
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 07:03:06PM -0500, Lyle Giese wrote: Is there a way to see error counts on the T1 of a PRI? Hooked up to asterisk via a digium TE122. Looking for something to make sure I'm not getting any CRC, framing or other errors on the T1. Go on ebay and buy an ADC Kentrox DataSmart 658 for less than $100 dollars. The 658 has an ethernet port for management and grabbing the stats of the T1 line itself. For an ISDN T1 PRI, set channels 1-23 to T1 Voice and Channel 24 to T1 Data, otherwise the B channel won't come up. You may need a DB15male and a DB15female to RJ45 adapters as not all of these units on Ebay come with them. The T1 from the phone company connects to the Network connector(db15 male on the unit) and the Terminal connector (db15 female) goes to Asterisk. These units started appearing on Ebay at the under $100 price mark about a year ago or so. Nice tip, though I won't be buying one for each of my 26 spans. :-) To the OP: if you're willing to open the box, there is usually a DB-9s on the front of the smartjack you can plug your laptop into... it's not actually your interface, but it will give you the numbers. You also run the risk of screwing up the span, which I do not assume hereby. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 Those who cast the vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything. -- (Joseph Stalin) ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Error Counters on PRI Circuit
Hello, In Asterisk you can type zap show status to at least show you some basic error information: CLI zap show status Description Alarms IRQbpviol CRC4 wanpipe1 card 0 OK 0 0 0 wanpipe2 card 1 OK 0 0 0 wanpipe3 card 2 OK 0 0 0 wanpipe4 card 3 RED0 0 0 I also just want to mention that on Sangoma T1/E1 cards you get several tools for looking at the errors and statistics for each circuit with the wanpipe drivers. Here are some examples of the info you get: -- w3g1: AFT OPERATIONAL STATISTICS -- Number of frames transmitted: 17 Number of bytes transmitted: 136 Transmit Throughput: 0 Transmit frames discarded (length error): 0 Transmit frames realigned: 0 Number of frames received: 17 Number of bytes received: 136 Receive Throughput: 0 Received frames discarded (too short): 0 Received frames discarded (too long): 0 Received frames discarded (link inactive): 0 HDLC link active/inactive and loopback statistics Times that the link went active: 17 Times that the link went inactive (modem failure): 16 Times that the link went inactive (keepalive failure): 0 link looped count: 0 And there is a lot more information in there that helps to debug and monitor troubled circuits. MATT--- On 5/20/08, Joe Pukepail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to see error counts on the T1 of a PRI? Hooked up to asterisk via a digium TE122. Looking for something to make sure I'm not getting any CRC, framing or other errors on the T1. Using asterisk 1.4.19 and zaptel 1.4.10 ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Error Counters on PRI Circuit
Joe Pukepail wrote: Is there a way to see error counts on the T1 of a PRI? Hooked up to asterisk via a digium TE122. Looking for something to make sure I'm not getting any CRC, framing or other errors on the T1. Many moons ago I use to used a program called zttool. It allowed looking at spans and the alarm state and bipolar errors and bit errors etc. You could also see which channels were in use and look at signaling bits. Anyhow this program sits in the zaptel directory. You may want to check it out. Don Pobanz -- MailDefender Message Security: Click below to verify authenticity http://www.exchangedefender.com/verify.asp?id=m4LIME3X015989[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Error Counters on PRI Circuit
Don Pobanz wrote: Joe Pukepail wrote: Is there a way to see error counts on the T1 of a PRI? Hooked up to asterisk via a digium TE122. Looking for something to make sure I'm not getting any CRC, framing or other errors on the T1. Many moons ago I use to used a program called zttool. It allowed looking at spans and the alarm state and bipolar errors and bit errors etc. You could also see which channels were in use and look at signaling bits. Anyhow this program sits in the zaptel directory. You may want to check it out. Don Pobanz -- MailDefender Message Security: Click below to verify authenticity http://www.exchangedefender.com/verify.asp?id=m4LIME3X015989[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users It compiles by default with Zaptel at this point, IIRC. Very handy tool ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Error Counters on PRI Circuit
Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 07:03:06PM -0500, Lyle Giese wrote: Is there a way to see error counts on the T1 of a PRI? Hooked up to asterisk via a digium TE122. Looking for something to make sure I'm not getting any CRC, framing or other errors on the T1. Go on ebay and buy an ADC Kentrox DataSmart 658 for less than $100 dollars. The 658 has an ethernet port for management and grabbing the stats of the T1 line itself. For an ISDN T1 PRI, set channels 1-23 to T1 Voice and Channel 24 to T1 Data, otherwise the B channel won't come up. You may need a DB15male and a DB15female to RJ45 adapters as not all of these units on Ebay come with them. The T1 from the phone company connects to the Network connector(db15 male on the unit) and the Terminal connector (db15 female) goes to Asterisk. These units started appearing on Ebay at the under $100 price mark about a year ago or so. Nice tip, though I won't be buying one for each of my 26 spans. :-) To the OP: if you're willing to open the box, there is usually a DB-9s on the front of the smartjack you can plug your laptop into... it's not actually your interface, but it will give you the numbers. You also run the risk of screwing up the span, which I do not assume hereby. :-) Cheers, -- jra Around here, the telco locks that cabinet and there is a user id/password required to use that craft interface. (I have a key, but then I worked for the telco for 23 years and have a few insider tools laying around) Lyle Giese ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Error Counters on PRI Circuit
Lyle Giese wrote: Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 07:03:06PM -0500, Lyle Giese wrote: Is there a way to see error counts on the T1 of a PRI? Hooked up to asterisk via a digium TE122. Looking for something to make sure I'm not getting any CRC, framing or other errors on the T1. Go on ebay and buy an ADC Kentrox DataSmart 658 for less than $100 dollars. The 658 has an ethernet port for management and grabbing the stats of the T1 line itself. For an ISDN T1 PRI, set channels 1-23 to T1 Voice and Channel 24 to T1 Data, otherwise the B channel won't come up. You may need a DB15male and a DB15female to RJ45 adapters as not all of these units on Ebay come with them. The T1 from the phone company connects to the Network connector(db15 male on the unit) and the Terminal connector (db15 female) goes to Asterisk. These units started appearing on Ebay at the under $100 price mark about a year ago or so. Nice tip, though I won't be buying one for each of my 26 spans. :-) To the OP: if you're willing to open the box, there is usually a DB-9s on the front of the smartjack you can plug your laptop into... it's not actually your interface, but it will give you the numbers. You also run the risk of screwing up the span, which I do not assume hereby. :-) Cheers, -- jra Around here, the telco locks that cabinet and there is a user id/password required to use that craft interface. (I have a key, but then I worked for the telco for 23 years and have a few insider tools laying around) Not only that, but Jay's suggestion is going to give you the performance monitoring data off the smartjack itself, not off of any portion of the span beyond the smartjack. So, if you are receiving errors on the part that runs to the CSU/DSU, or, if you have an outboard CSU/DSU, also the DTE portion beyond it, well, you won't see those. You might get lucky and see errors in transmission (arrival at the smartjack from the customer data side) since many error-causing phenomena tend to apply symmetrically, but maybe not. -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel: (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 Mobile : (+1) (706) 338-8599 ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Error Counters on PRI Circuit
Joe Pukepail wrote: Is there a way to see error counts on the T1 of a PRI? Hooked up to asterisk via a digium TE122. Looking for something to make sure I'm not getting any CRC, framing or other errors on the T1. Using asterisk 1.4.19 and zaptel 1.4.10 Go on ebay and buy an ADC Kentrox DataSmart 658 for less than $100 dollars. The 658 has an ethernet port for management and grabbing the stats of the T1 line itself. For an ISDN T1 PRI, set channels 1-23 to T1 Voice and Channel 24 to T1 Data, otherwise the B channel won't come up. You may need a DB15male and a DB15female to RJ45 adapters as not all of these units on Ebay come with them. The T1 from the phone company connects to the Network connector(db15 male on the unit) and the Terminal connector (db15 female) goes to Asterisk. These units started appearing on Ebay at the under $100 price mark about a year ago or so. If you buy new, I think they are around $1200 in the US. And if you are not sure how to configure them, ADC is quite accommodating and I have configured more than one and can assist. Lyle Giese LCR Computer Services, Inc. ___ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
