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MINI-LINK Craft User Guide
MINI-LINK Craft User Guide
MINI-LINK Craft User Guide
Contents
1 2 3 3.1 4 4.1 4.2 5 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 Introduction Safety Information Preparations Additional Preparations Using The FTP Server Configuring The FTP Server Starting and Stopping the FTP Server Using MINI-LINK Craft User Interface Overview Menus Management Tree Notification List Text Editor Bug Reporting Tool Wizards Naming Principles MINI-LINK Craft Troubleshooting
Reference List
1 Introduction
This user guide provides information about the MINI-LINK Craft 2.9.
2 Safety Information
Make sure that the information in the following documents has been understood by the persons performing the procedures: Personal Health and Safety Information System Safety Information Supplementary Safety Information for MINI-LINK
3 Preparations
This section presents the preparations needed for a successful completion of the procedures in this instruction.
Figure 1 MINI-LINK Craft Desktop Overview A B C D E F G H I J Menu bar Contains commands, see Section 5.2.1. Toolbar Contains buttons and commands for commonly used tasks. Navigation buttons Moves back and forward to previously viewed pages. Management Tree Shows the tree of managed objects, see Section 5.3. Browser Contains the main area for working with the NE. Notification List Displays alarm notifications, see Section 5.4. Total alarms Shows the total number of active alarms in the NE. Total events Shows the total number of active events in the NE. Error log Indicates if the error log contains messages. Connected Indicates if MINI-LINK Craft is connected to the NE.
5.2 Menus
This section describes the menus in MINI-LINK Craft. 5.2.1 Menus in MINI-LINK Craft
Figure 3 MINI-LINK Craft File Menu Save Saves and applies the current configuration. Reconnect Exits MINI-LINK Craft and shows the Login window. Exit Exits MINI-LINK Craft.
Figure 4 MINI-LINK Craft Edit Menu Copy Copies the currently selected text to the Clipboard. Paste Pastes the text on the Clipboard at the insertion point.
Figure 5 MINI-LINK Craft View Menu Toolbars Configures the toolbars in MINI-LINK Craft. o Desktop Shows or hides the Desktop toolbar.
o Labels Shows or hides text labels under the icons on toolbars. o Lock the Toolbars Locks the toolbars from changes. Statusbar Shows or hides the Status Bar. Management Tree Shows or hides the Management Tree. Notification List Shows or hides the Notification List. Last Alarm Shows or hides the Last Alarm bar. Back Shows the previously viewed page. Forward Shows the next page in a previously displayed sequence of pages. Up Shows the Alarms and Status page for the parent object. Stop Stops the loading of the page. Refresh Refreshes the page view. Error log Opens the Logviewer window.
Figure 6 MINI-LINK Craft Tools Menu Text Editor Starts a simple text editor, see Section 5.5. FTP Server Opens the management page for the built-in FTP server. FTP Server in New Window Opens the management page for the built-in FTP server in a new web browser window.
Figure 7 MINI-LINK Craft Wizards Menu See Section 5.7 for more information. Layer 1 Connection Wizard Opens the Layer 1 Connection Wizard. Layer 2 Connection Wizard Opens the Layer 2 Connection Wizard.
Figure 8 MINI-LINK Craft Help Menu Help on Window Opens Help for the currently displayed page in a new web browser window. Help Contents Opens Help in a new web browser window. Bug Reporting Opens the Bug Reporting Tool, see Section 5.6. Ericsson Web Opens a web browser window with a link to Ericsson home page. About Credit and version information.
5.2.2 Menus in NPU Installation Mode The menu commands in NPU Installation mode are described below.
Figure 9 Menus in NPU Installation mode Configuration Displays a menu with configuration commands. o Restore NPU Configuration Opens the Restore NPU Configuration page, providing a guide to restore the NPU, see MINI-LINK Craft User Interface Descriptions. Tools Displays a menu with miscellaneous commands. Help Displays information on the functions available on a specific page. Available on all menus.
Figure 10 The Management Tree Each entity is displayed with an icon and name. Entities that contain sub-entities, for example a plug-in unit that contains interfaces, are displayed with a plus-sign in front of its icon. When the plus-sign or the icon is clicked the entity is expanded and the subentities are displayed. The NE is located at the top of the tree and the plug-in units are located below. A plug-in unit can contain interfaces and/or ports in different structures depending on the unit type and the current configuration of the unit. An interface can contain higher layer interfaces. In this case the interface icon has a plus-sign that displays the higher layer interfaces when selected.
Figure 11 List A B C Filter Current Alarm List Latest alarm (not necessary active) D Status bar: number of alarms, Equipment and Traffic.
The Notification List presents the current alarm and status information. All history alarms are also presented. The dynamic lists are updated every time a new notification is received, unless the notification is suppressed by any selection.
Figure 12 Text Editor Top menus: File - New, Open, Save, Save As, Recent and Close Edit - Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Find, Find Next, Replace and Select All. View - Toolbars (Standard buttons, Labels, Lock the Toolbars), Status Bar, Word Wrap Help - Help Contents, Bug Reporting, ERICSSON Web, About
Figure 13 Bug Reporting Tool in MINI-LINK Craft The Bug Report Tool is accessed on the Help menu.
Use the Bug Report page to control what type of information MINI-LINK Craft will try to gather (all information may not be available). This information is useful for third line support. Description Try to give a detailed description of the problem. Preferably describe only one problem for each bug report. System The Bug Report Tool will automatically gather system information. The following information is collected Report Time, Release (Software release of latest installed MINI-LINK Craft), Operating System (the Operating System which the installed MINILINK Craft is running on), Java Version used, and Client uptime. Screenshot A screenshot of the current MINI-LINK Craft window is displayed automatically. Clicking and holding down will show the shot in full-screen view. Client Log MINI-LINK Craft client logs are added automatically from the error log window and can be found in the file ClientLog.xml. Network Element Information The alarm list, event list, configuration report, and inventory report from the NE are added automatically. The alarm list, event list, and licenses can be found in the file NodeInformation.xml. The reports can be found in NodeReport.html. For Compact Nodes, the reports can be found in NodeInformation.xml. Network Element Files The configuration file, error log files, and the local log files from the NE are added automatically. For Compact Nodes, only the error log files are added. Open Folder Click to open the folder where the bug report is saved. Save Click to save the bug report in a .zip file in the folder tn_ftp_home. Saving the file may take a few minutes if Network Element Information or Network Element Files is selected. Close Click to close the Bug Report Tool.
5.7 Wizards
This section gives a general description of the available wizards in MINILINK Craft. There are two Ethernet wizards: one for Layer 1 Connections and one for Layer 2 Connections. Wizards are started using the Wizards menu. The wizards are used for basic configuration. For advanced configuration, use the Management Tree in MINI-LINK Craft (see Configuration Data for MINI-LINK TN in the Site Engineering folder of the MINI-LINK TN CPI library for parameters that can be set in MINI-LINK Craft). Note: The wizards only read configuration information from the NE when the wizard is started. If changes are made in MINI-LINK Craft while a wizard is running, the wizard will not be aware of the changes. It is necessary to exit the wizard and start it again to make it read the modified information.
Wizard Contents Displays the different steps involved i wizard. Information message Displays configuration hints.
Connection Overview Displays an overview of the obje involved in the connection, see Section 5.7.1.1.
Navigation buttons Click < Back to go back to the pre to review or change settings. Click Next > to go to the nex This button is unavailable until all required settings have be on a page. On Summary pages, click Finish when you wan commit changes to the NE. Click Cancel if you want to exit wizard.
For detailed descriptions of MINI-LINK Craft pages, see MINILINK Craft User Interface Descriptions
5.7.1.1 Connection Overview and Connection Summary This section describes the Connection Overview, which is included on some of the wizard pages (on Summary pages it is called Connection Summary). This displays an overview of the objects involved in the connection and their current statuses.
Figure 15 Connection Overview For each Packet Link, the position of the MMU within the AMM is given in the Connection Overview. For other objects, the position is given on the format Subrack/Position/Port if these are known.
The status of the different objects are indicated as follows: Green The object is configured, validated, and committed to the N Gray Red White
The object is configured and validated, but the commit oper failed. The object is not yet configured.
NPU1 B 1/11 for the plug-in unit. User Input 1/11/1A for User Input port A on connector 1
on the plug-in unit.
An RAU is denoted in accordance with the MMU it is connected to. For example, RAU 1/6.1 is connected to MMU2 4-34 1/6. An RMM is denoted in accordance with the NPU where it is inserted. For example, RMM 1/11.1 is inserted in NPU1 B 1/11.
5.8.3 Naming of Interfaces Interfaces are named as: Name + Subrack/Position/Port + Hierarchy Number, where:
The following principles also apply: For a protected (1+1) Radio Terminal with SMU2, the interfaces below the two radio interfaces are denoted in accordance with the identity of the SMU2 . For example: o A terminal comprises MMU2 4-34 1/6, MMU2 434 1/7 and SMU2 1/8. The radio interfaces are denoted RAU IF 1/6/1 and RAU IF 1/7/1. The active RAU IF 1/6/1 holds the SWITCH 1/8/1 interface. A contained E3 interface is denoted E3 1/8/1 1 below both radio interfaces. RF indicates the RAU's interface with an antenna. For example RF 1/6.1/1 in an RAU 1/6.1 connected to an MMU2 4-34 1/6.
The name of the protected E1 interface in a 1+1 E1 SNCP protection ends with an asterisk (*). Furthermore, the protected E1 interface inherits the name of the first of the two unprotected E1s. For example: o The unprotected E1 1/3/4A and E1 1/3/3C interfaces are used to create the protected E1 1/3/4A* interface. MSP protection follows the same principle as 1+1 E1 SNCP protection. For example: o The MS/RS 1/4/1 and MS/RS 1/5/1 interfaces are used to create the protected MSP 1/4/1* interface. The asterisk is propagated to all contained interface names. A Point to Point Protocol (PPP) interface over an E1 gets the same name as the E1 . The two PPP interfaces in a Radio Terminal are named for example 1/4/1 SC1 and 1/4/1 SC2. The PPP interfaces over STM-1 are named for example 1/5/1 MS:D4-6, 1/5/1 MS:D7-9, 1/5/1 MS:D10-12 or 1/5/1 RS:D1-3. An ML-PPP interface is named <near end IP address> <far end IP address>. The HDLC interface is named according to the near end MAC address, for example 00:80:37:89:89:89 - IM. The IM interface gets the name according to its server E1, for example IM 1/2/1 1.1.
If the USB cable have been moved to another node during operation, a manual restart must be performed on MINI-LINK Craft. Do the following: 1. On the File menu click Exit. Wait for MINI-LINK Craft to shut down. 2. Restart by selecting MINI-LINK Craft under Start>Programs. 3. In the Logon window enter the local IP-address 10.0.0.1. 4. Enter control user and password and click Logon. The node will start and be updated with the latest alarms and status. 5.9.5 Pages Cannot Be Displayed after Printing to File
Figure 16 Print to File Problem Printing the Notification List to a file by specifying Microsoft Office Document Image Writer as printer will cause local file access to stop working. As a result, trying to access a page may result in an error message as shown in Figure 16. Refreshing the notification list may also stop working. To solve this problem, MINI-LINK Craft needs to be restarted.
Reference List
[1] Accessing a Network Element, 3/1543-CSH 109 32/1-V1. [2] Installing or Uninstalling MSM, 2/1531-CAU 119 2778. [3] MINI-LINK Craft User Interface Descriptions, 7/1551-CSH 109 32/1-V1. [4] Personal Health and Safety Information, 124 46-2885. [5] Supplementary Safety Information for MINI-LINK, 124 46HSD 101 16/1. [6] SW Management Overview, 6/1551-CSH 109 32/1-V1. [7] System Safety Information, 124 46-2886. [8] Technical Description, 12/221 02-CSH 109 32/1-V1.