Nortel DMS-10 User manual

DMS-10 and DMS-100 Families
Billing Media Converter II
Bisynchronous
1997 Quick Reference Guide
97Q3 02.01 Standard July 1997
297-6201-501
Your guide to:
• Maintenance commands
• Index Corruption Maintenance
• Replacement procedures
• PCA switch setting and jumper options
This Quick Reference Guide applies to all EMC chassis
(metal front door panels) Bisynchronous (BISYNC) style
Billing Media Converter II (BMC II) systems.
Other style BMC II systems cannot use this Quick
Reference Guide.
BISYNC BMC II systems can be identified by the
information on their rear panel labels.
Catalog Number or Model Number:
NT8M0xxC (EMC Chassis models)

DMS-10 and DMS-100 Families
Billing Media Converter II
Bisynchronous
1997 Quick Reference Guide
Publication Number: 297-6201-501
Applicability: 97Q3
Document Release: Standard 02.01
Date: July 1997
Copyright 1997, 1996 Northern Telecom
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Northern Telecom Confidential: The information contained in this
document is the property of Northern Telecom. Except as specifically
authorized in writing by Northern Telecom, the holder of this document shall
keep all information contained herein confidential and shall protect same in
whole or in part from disclosure and dissemination to third parties and use
same for evaluation, operation, and maintenance purposes only.
Information is subject to change without notice. Northern Telecom reserves
the right to make changes in design or components as progress in
engineering and manufacturing may warrant. The DMS-100 version of this
equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A
digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules, and the radio interference
regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications. These limits are
designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when
the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment
generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy, and if not installed
and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful
interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a
residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user
will be required to correct the interference at his own expense.
DMS is a trademark of Northern Telecom.

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BMC II BISYNC Quick Reference Guide
Publication history
May 1996 Standard 01.01
July 1997 Standard 02.01.
• Integrated the new Quick Reference Guide template into this document.
• Added DMS-10 and DMS-100 software and firmware files reference
table to BMC II BISYNC Figures.
• Modified Maintenance Commands with commands left out of first
issue:
—BVAL
— RMID.
• Added a disk drive size and related number of tracks table in Mainte-
nance Commands.
• Added a CMD and STA code descriptions table to the TEC/DSI Com-
mands subsection of Maintenance Commands.
• Removed the Bus Terminator PCA from the list of valid PCAs in the
Miscellaneous PCA Replacement Procedure.
• Added notes regarding the location of the defect map and HEAD and
CYLINDERS out of range to step 9 of the Install replacement disk
drive procedure in the Disk Drive Replacement Procedure.
• Added note concerning the placement of the J5 jumper to step 8 of the
Disk Crossover PCA Replacement Procedure.
• Added the following to the PCA Switch and Strap Settings:
— CPU LED display codes table
— Disk Interface PCA table.
• Modified statements in various sections concerning firmware to verify
file name and release level prior to installation of replacement PCA.
• Modified PCA options statements in various sections to refer to the
PCA Switch and Strap Settings to verify settings prior to installation.
• Corrected various minor format and content errors throughout the docu-
ment.

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BMC II BISYNC Quick Reference Guide
Contents
BMC II BISYNC Figures 1
Maintenance Commands 5
Alarm Manipulation Commands 5
Boot Commands 5
Disk Operations Commands 5
File Index Maintenance Commands 6
File Manipulations Commands 7
Miscellaneous Commands 8
Polling Link Commands 8
Processor Activity Command 8
Program Version Commands 9
Site Dependent Data Commands 9
Statistics Commands 12
System Clock Commands 12
TEC/DSI Functions Commands 13
Testing Commands 14
Guide to Index Corruption Recovery 15
Version number missing from index, but is on disk 15
Recognition 15
Recovery 17
Sequence numbers not incrementing properly 18
Recognition 18
Recovery 20
TOLIDX OPEN ERROR:03 22
Miscellaneous PCA Replacement Procedure
(NT6M60xx, NT6M62xx, NT6M63xx, NT6M64xx,
NT6M66xx, NT6M70xx, NT6M89xx, or
NT6M90xx) 25
Disk Replacement Procedure 29
Removing the Faulty Disk Drive 29
Installing the Replacement Disk Drive 30
Disk Crossover PCA Replacement Procedure
(NT6M72xx) 33
Error Control II PCA Replacement Procedure
(NT6M65xx) 37
Error Control II Jumper PCA Replacement
Procedure (NTM609xx) 39

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Power and Alarm Communications PCA
Replacement Procedure (NT6M84xx) 41
Power Supply Replacement Procedure
(NT6M71xx) 43
PCA Switch and Strap Settings 47
List of Figures
BMC II BISYNC Front View 1
DMS-10 Side View 2
DMS-100/DCO Side View 2
Version number missing 16
Version number recovered 17
Sequence numbers not incrementing 19
Sequence numbering corrected 20
List of Procedures
Miscellaneous PCA replacement 25
Remove faulty disk drive 29
Install replacement disk drive 30
Disk Crossover PCA replacement (NT6M72xx) 33
Error Control II PCA (NT6M65xx) replacement 37
Error Control II Jumper PCA (NTM609xx) replacement 39
Power and Alarm Communications PCA (NT6M84xx)
replacement 41
Power Supply (NT6M71xx) replacement 43
List of Tables
BMC II BISYNC software and firmware files 3
Disk drive size and related number of tracks 6
Valid status values for CMD and STA bytes 13
NT6M62xx CPU PCA 47
CPU LED display codes 47
NT6M63xx EPROM PCA (MEM1) 48
NT6M60BA Quad SIO (Slot 6), BMC set to INTERNAL timing
and Polling Modem set to EXTERNAL timing 49
NT6M60BAQuadSIO(Slot 6),BMC setto EXTERNALtiming
and Polling modem set to INTERNAL timing 49
Baud Rate Reference 50
NT6M84BA PWR/ALM Communications PCA, BMC set to
INTERNALtimingandPollingmodemsettoEXTERNAL
timing 51
NT6M84BA PWR/ALM Communications PCA, BMC set to
EXTERNALtimingandPollingmodemsettoINTERNAL
timing 51
NT6M66xx Disk Interface PCA 51
NT6M70xx DMS-100 DSI PCA 52
NT6M89xx DMS-10 TEC PCA 53
NT6M90xx 800 bpi DCO TEC PCA 54
NT6M90xx 1600 bpi DCO TEC PCA 55

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BMC II BISYNC Quick Reference Guide
BMC II BISYNC Figures
Figure 1
BMC II BISYNC Front View
NT6M62xx Central Processor Unit (CPU) with DMAPCA
NT6M63xx EPROM PCA
NT6M64xx DRAM with Extended Memory PCA
NT6M65xx Error Control II PCA
NTM609xx Error Control Jumper PCA
NT6M60xx Quad Serial Input/Output (SIO) PCA
NT6M66xx Disk Interface PCA
NT6M70xx Data Stream Interface (DSI) PCA (DMS-100 systems only)
NT6M89xx Tape Emulation Card (TEC) PCA (DMS-10 systems only)
NT6M90xx TEC PCA (DCO* systems only)
NT6M68xx Bus Terminator PCA
NT6M71xx Power Supply
NT6M72xx Disk Drive: AA - 72MB; BA - 140MB; CA - 30MB;
NT6M72xx Disk Crossover PCA These packs are
NT6M84xx Power/Alarm Communication PCA located in the
NT6M56xx Fan Filter PCA back of the BMC
* DCO is a registered trademark of Siemens Stromberg-Carlson.
LT
AProcessor
J8 J10J9
J8 J10J9 Chassis
GRD
NT6M62xx
NT6M63xx
NT6M64xx
NT6M66xx
NT6M70/89/90xx
NT6M68xx
NT6M60xx NT6M65xx
NT6M70/89/90xx
NT6M62xx
NT6M63xx
NT6M64xx
NT6M66xx
NT6M70/89/90xx
NT6M68xx
NT6M60xx
NTM609xx
NT6M70/89/90xx
ADisk Drive
NT6M72xx
BDisk Drive
NT6M72xx
Power Supply
NT6M71xx
NT6M71xx
Power Supply B Processor
AB
OP

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Figure 2
DMS-10 Side View
Figure 3
DMS-100/DCO Side View
J1 - SDI TTY
J2 - Software Download
J3 - Polling link
J4 - Maintenance TTY
J
1J
2
J
3J
4
J
9J
1
0
J1 - Not Used
J2 - Software Download
J3 - Polling Link
J4 - Maintenance TTY
J
1J
2
J
3J
4
J
9
J
1
0

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Note 1: All BMC BISYNC system types use the same call record
format, LSSGR and Pollstar for download format.
Note 2: This chart does not represent the baseline for system operation.
The file names listed above are the most current release available at the
time of publication for the various BMC BISYNC system types.
Table 1
BMC II BISYNC software and firmware files
Switch S/W Load Boot
F/W VS Disk F/W VS TEC VS
DMS-10 023-LTCC18
05/26/95 001BT3-4 105D03 155TEC-1 7/24/87
DMS-100 020-DMLC21-00
04/10/92 001BT3-4 105D03 123TEC-1 10/02/92
DCO 022-LDCC04
11/20/91 001BT3-4 105D03 157TEC-0 05/04/88

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Maintenance Commands
Alarm Manipulation Commands
Boot Commands
Disk Operations Commands
Command Name Explanation
RSERR Resets alarms on the active processor.
MONS(cr)
RSERR Resets alarms on the standby processor.
Note: After clearing the Standby alarm, type (CTRL)Z to get out of
the MON> overlay.
Command Name Explanation
Note: The following commands must be used while in the monitor
overlay. This is done by typing MON>(cr).
LA xxxxxx vvv Appends a program name to boot list.
xxxxxx - program name
vvv - version number.
LB Loads program files listed in the boot
file to active processor.
LD Deletes the last file name in boot file.
LL Lists the contents of the boot file.
Note: After using any of the BOOT commands, type (CTRL)Z to get
out of the MON> overlay
MONS(cr)
MON(cr)
LB
Loads program files listed in the boot
file to standby processor.
Note: After using any of the BOOT commands, type (CTRL)Z to get
out of the MON> overlay.
MONS(cr) Allows communication with the standby
processor. (Follow with commands
valid for the standby processor.)
Command Name Explanation
Note: The following commands must be used while in the disk overlay.
This is done by typing DSK>(cr).
DEFMAP x Enters the defective tracks for 30-140 MB
disk drives. Bad track information is pro-
vided with the disk drive.
x- disk drive: A or B.
FORMAT x Formats the specified disk drive.
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Table 2
Disk drive size and related number of tracks
File Index Maintenance Commands
CAUTION
The FORMAT command will erase all data from specified
disk drive. Should not be done during high traffic.
INIT 1x Performs a short initialization procedure
on the specified disk.
x- disk drive: Aor B.
MOD Displays the current disk mode.
MOD xy Changes current disk mode. This opera-
tion takes several hours.
x- Primary disk: A or B
y-O: No standby disk on-line
OR
y- P: Standby disk on-line.
CAUTION
The MOD command can over write needed data.
PARM Displays choice of disk types used for
NON-TURBO BMC II’s. Enter 1 - 9
depending on the disk type used.
VS Displays the disk firmware version.
Note: After using any of the DISK commands, type (CTRL)Z to get
out of the DSK> overlay.
DUSE Displays the number of tracks used / total
tracks available. Refer to Table 2 for
more information.
Disk
Size Total Tracks Disk Size Total Tracks
30 MB 2961 72 MB 6909
140 MB 13,770
Command Name Explanation
CHKIDXf Checks the index file.
DELCRFf Deletes oldest secondary file from
disk and updates the index.
GETIDXv.f Creates a new index file with primary
data only.
*GETIDXu:v.f Creates a new index file with a start-
ing secondary version and a starting
primary version.
Command Name Explanation

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File Manipulations Commands
*GETIDXu:v s.f Creates a new index file with a start-
ing secondary version and a starting
primary sequence number.
*These commands are only valid for BMC II BISYNC software loads
that were released after 1990.
NEWCRFf Closes open call record file and
opens new file.
f- filetype:
T- toll
M- message
O- OMR1
P- OMR2
v- starting primary version #.
u - starting secondary version #.
s- first sequence # to be primary.
Command Name Explanation
AFTii Lists the directory entry for the active
file specified.
ii - file id # from LSTACT.
CLOSEii Closes open file.
ii - file id # from FSYS.
DELETE ffffff vvv Deletes a particular file version.
DELETE ffffff mmm:nnn Deletes a range of versions of a particu-
lar file.
Example:
>DELETE AMCRD 3:150 Deletes filename AMACRD versions 3
to 150.
DIR ffffff vvv Lists the directory entry of a specified
file and version.
DIR ffffff mmm:nnn Lists the directory entry of a specified
file and range of versions.
DMP ffffff vvv b cccc Outputs a specified number blocks from
a specified file for examination.
ffffff - filename.
vvv - file version #. 0is the latest ver-
sion (0-255).
mmm - starting versions: 1-255
nnn - ending versions: 1-255
must be larger than m.
b- Specifies starting block range
(0 - 999,999).
cccc - Specific number of block to
dump (0 - 9,999).
DSPs.fl Displays a selected block from BMC II
disk by sequence number.
DSPr To continue to display a selected range
of blocks from BMC II disk.
Command Name Explanation

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Miscellaneous Commands
Polling Link Commands
Processor Activity Command
DSPZ Closes file currently open for read.
FILEf.Z Displays the first 26 closed versions
indexed for the file on the disk.
FILEf,Z Continues to display 26 more closed
versions, if available.
FILEf. Displays the open file being written to
disk.
FILEf Displays a summary of indexed files.
f- filetype:
T- toll
M- message
O- OMR 1
P- OMR 2
l- format:
A - ASCII (message blocks)
N - PACKED (Toll Blocks)
s- selected sequence #: 0to 999999.
r- # of blocks to view
A -Y - 1- 25 blocks.
FSYS Displays a list of currently open files.
XDIR Lists all file in disk directory.
Command Name Explanation
ACR Restores AC clock after an AC
power failure.
Note: Use only if the optional AC clock feature is used for BMC II.
BYE Logs off this terminal.
(CTRL) P Stops printout of a requested dis-
play by clearing the print buffer.
Command Name Explanation
LNKnD Causes DTR to drop for 5 seconds
and aborts a polling session in
progress.
LNKnE Examine the status of the port.
n- link # of the incoming call.
Command Name Explanation
SWITCH Changes currently active proces-
sor (A to B or B to A).
Command Name Explanation

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Program Version Commands
Site Dependent Data Commands
Command Name Explanation
ACTIVE PROCESSOR ONLY
VS Displays the active processor soft-
ware program version ID.
MON(cr)
VS Displays the active processor’s firmware program version ID.
Note: After using this command, type (CTRL)Z to get out of the
MON> overlay.
DSK VS Displays the disk firmware ver-
sion ID.
TECxCV Displays the active processor
firmware version ID for the
selected TEC/DSI PCA.
x- TEC/DSI Port ID: 1or 2.
1- TEC/DSI in slot A13.
2- TEC/DSI in slot A12.
STANDBY PROCESSOR ONLY
Note: The following commands must be used while in the standby
(MON>) overlay. Enter the MONS command. Subsequent commands
are sent to the Standby Processor. Commands are once again directed to
the Active Processor when an illegal command or a (CNTRL)Z is
entered.
MONS Enters the standby (MON>) over-
lay.
VS Displays the standby processor
software program version ID.
MON>(cr)
VS Displays the standby processor firmware version ID.
TECxCV Displays the standby processor
firmware version ID for the
selected TEC/DSI PCA.
x- TEC/DSI Port ID: 1or 2.
1- TEC/DSI in slot A13.
2- TEC/DSI in slot A12.
Note: After using any of these commands, type (CTRL)Z to get out of
the MON> overlay.
Command Name Explanation
BUFSZE Displays transmit frame size to data center
BUFSZxxx Sets transmit frame size to xxx (default 64
bytes/frame, 512 bytes max)*.
BVALDTE Examines the setting for the number of days
that a call record file is retained after it has
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BVALDTtt Changes the setting for the number of days
that a call record file is retained after it has
been polled.
tt - time (00-99).*
BVALDUE Examines the setting for the percent of total
disk drive capacity above which polled files
will automatically be deleted. Default value is
75.
BVALDUpp Changes the setting for the percent of total
disk drive capacity above which polled files
will automatically be deleted.
pp - disk capacity percentage (00-99).*
Note: Nortel recommends that the disk capacity percentage not be set
to a value greater than 85.
BVALIDE Examines the site identification and Switch-
ing System data.
BVALIDaabb Changes the site identification and Switching
System data.
aa - two-digit switch type
bb - two-digit site identification.*
BVALITE Examines the number of invalid blocks that
can be accepted by the BMC. Default value is
0000.
BVALITbbbbb Changes the number of invalid blocks that can
be accepted by the BMC.
bbbbb - invalid blocks (1-65,536).*
BVALPRE Examines the number of unpolled call record
file versions stored on disk before a Poll
Request message is issued. Default value is
25.
BVALPRff Changes the number of unpolled call record
file versions stored on disk before a Poll
Request message is issued.
ff - file versions (1-50). One-digit values need
a space after the number (i.e., 4_).*
HRBLKE Displays hour boundaries currently assigned.
Default value is 0024.
HRBLKssee Sets the time interval to verify that AMA
records have been received from the switch.*
ss - two digit start time: (00 - 23)
ee - two digit end time: (00 - 23).
Note: The following commands must be used while in the KYWD>
overlay.
KYWD Enters the KYWD> overlay.
LExamines the HOST password.
01Ciiiiii Changes the HOST password.*
iiiiii - six character HOST password.
Command Name Explanation

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Note: After using any of these commands, type (CTRL)Z to get out of
the KYWD> overlay.
Note: The following commands must be used while in the LKEY>
overlay.
LKEY Enters the LKEY> overlay.
EDisplays the Local password.
Cxxxxxx Changes the Local password.*
xxxxxx - six character password.
Note: After using any of these commands, type (CTRL)Z to get out of
the LKEY> overlay.
LPADE Examines the current one byte leading pad
character used in the BISYNC protocol dur-
ing call record polling.
LPADxx Changes the current one byte leading pad
character used in the BISYNC protocol dur-
ing call record polling. The leading pad char-
acter cannot start with an E.
xx - two-digit pad character (HEX).
*********************************************************
DMS-10 ONLY
PASS?L Displays DMS-10 password.
PASS?xxxx Changes the DMS-10 password.*
xxxx - 4 digit password.
*********************************************************
Note: The following commands must be used while in the PSWD>
overlay.
PSWD(cr) Enters the PSWD> overlay.
A nnnnnn p Adds a new password to the system.
uC n p Changes a currently assigned password or pri-
ority level.*
uD Deletes the selected user number password
(#=0-9)
u- user number
nnnnnn - 6 char alphanumeric password
p- priority 1-3 (1- lowest, 3- highest).
LDisplays the user passwords and the associ-
ated priority level.
Note: After using any of these commands, type (CTRL)Z to get out of
the PSWD> overlay.
RMIDL Lists the assigned remote station identifica-
tion.
RMIDnC xxx Changes the remote station identification.*
n- remote station number
xxx - three character ID for remote station.
Command Name Explanation

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Statistics Commands
System Clock Commands
SITER Reads (restores) the site data parameters from
the BMC disk and over writes the main mem-
ory (RAM).
SITEW Updates (Saves) the site data parameters from
memory to disk.
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DMS-10 ONLY
TERM1aa Enables the BMC’s SDI Port terminal assign-
ment while disabling the Local TTY Port.
aa - DMS-10 SDI terminal number (0-99)
TERM2 Enables the BMC’s Local TTY Port while
disabling the DMS-10 SDI Port.*
*********************************************************
*Remember to save any changes using the SITEW command.
Command Name Explanation
REPTtp Displays a compiled list out of a selected sta-
tistical file available on the BMC II disk.
t- type: (1-3)
1- TOLL
2- DISK ERRORS
3- POLLING
p- period: (T- today or Y- yesterday).
STATC Clears today’s statistics file reports.
Command Name Explanation
STIMyymmddhhmmssd Changes the time on the BMC II clock.
yy - year: (00-99)
mm - month: (01-12)
dd - day: (01-31)
hh - hour: (00-23)
mm - minutes: (00-59)
ss - seconds: (00-59)
d- day: (1-7 1 - MON, 7- SUN)
TIM Display time of active processor.
MONS (cr)
TIM Display time of standby processor.
Note: After displaying the clock on the standby, type (CTRL)Z to get
out of the MON> overlay
Command Name Explanation