The SS7 Maintenance menu

The SS7/Sigtran > Maintenance pages provide maintenance and troubleshooting capabilities on Local SCCP Users, Remote Signaling Points, Remote MTP3 Users, Link Sets, and Links.

The Maintenance information is helpful under alarm conditions as a starting point for gathering additional information. For example, the maintenance pages display the timestamp when a Link Set or Link goes down. The timestamp can then be used to narrow the search in the event history log and measurements reports.

Errors, warnings, and the possible need for maintenance activity are shown on the GUI pages as colored cells so the conditions are readily identifiable.

After rudimentary information for troubleshooting has been obtained, the network operator can continue investigating under the Alarms & Events and Measurements options on the GUI.

The menu also enables you to perform maintenance-related tasks such as:

• Enabling and disabling Links.
• Resetting the network status of Routes.
• Resetting the MP's SCCP status of the subsystem and point code.
• Enabling and disabling LSUs.

Status information is obtained on the system through data collected the SOAM server on MP servers.

A user group must have permissions to view or execute any of the procedures on the SS7/Sigtran Maintenance menu. If a group does not have permissions for the Maintenance menu options for Local SCCP Users, Remote Signaling Points, Remote MTP3 Users, Link Sets, or Links, these options do not appear in the GUI.

SS7 maintenance is available from the SOAM. All maintenance links are active when the user is connected to the SOAM.