Re: (PM) T1/PRI error checking script

Roy (garlic@garlic.com)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:30:19 -0700

One of the sick things about the PM3 is you cannot check line status via
SNMP.

The alarm variables do not show if an alarm is occuring, only the total
count

The line up and line down variables are not correct. We had a condition
where the line was down put the PM-3 reported it up.

Both problems were reported to support but I doubt they will ever get
fixed.

jp@sugar.midcoast.com wrote:
>
> I made a little expect script and a little bash script all about 10 lines
> long to telnet into a PM3 and do a show line0 or show line1 and report
> back the errors. I did it to learn how to use expect and make the start of
> something useful. Basically, if we have a phone company T1 problem, we
> will know lots of details and help get it fixed quicker.
>
> Then I handed it off to a friend and employee, Jacob, who completely redid
> my academic shell-script thing in perl and made it put the errors onto a
> webpage at a cron-defined time interval.
>
> This is inspired by the really cool output of the new Adtran T1/DSL
> linecards that Bell Atlantic is now using. I'm not inspired by BA, but by
> Adtran and how the presented the error count. Well, they don't put the
> stuff on a webpage, but it does have it all in nice columns based on 15
> minute intervals.
>
> So we did something similar for the PM3s and have web-output now. It
> produces a new file each day, and adds to the file every time the script
> is run by cron. It's still pretty crude, but it looks cool, provides good
> information, and might be very useful.
>
> Sample output:
> http://hectic.midcoast.com/pm3/page.html
>
> Sample program is at:
> http://hectic.midcoast.com/pm3/sample.tar
>
> YMMV, use at your own risk, etc... etc... This is run on Redhat Linux 5.2.
>
> Comments should sent to snake@midcoast.com and jp@midcoast.com
>
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