Nortel NAC Manuel utilisateur

Network Administration Center

User Guide Supplement

Publication number: P0886656

Product release: 2.5

Document release: Standard 1.0

Date: November 1998

Printed in the United States of America

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.

MERIDIAN 1, NETWORK ADMINISTRATION CENTER (NAC), NORTHERN TELECOM,

NORTEL NETWORKS, and NORTEL NETWORKS HOW THE WORLD SHARES IDEAS are

trademarks of Northern Telecom Ltd. MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, and Windows NT are

trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

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Contents

Preface About this guide ix

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x

Inside this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

1What’s new in NAC 2.5 1

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

New features in NAC 2.5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Additional software codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Time and year modifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Changes to link status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Restrictions for list names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Required documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

2Preparing the system 15

Describing the system requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Using the MVME332XTS or MVME332XT card . . . . . . . . . 21

3Configuring the modems 23

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Section A: US Robotics modems 27

Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Remote diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Remote supervisor login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Network link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Section B: Racal VI2422PA modem 35

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

Network link and Racal VI2422PA modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37

4Using the Meridian Terminal Emulator 39

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Connecting through a serial port or modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Connecting through a LAN connection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48

Configuring MTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

5Saving to a file 53

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Assigning a port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55

Printing to a file. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Formatting headings in a data stream report . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59

Downloading the report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61

6Handling local printing 65

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

Restrictions for using local printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Printing to a LAN printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Before you configurea local printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Directing reports to a local printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .70

Overriding the system printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .71

Adding a local printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73

Changing a local printer type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75

Changing a local printer name. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76

Deleting a local printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77

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7Using Multiple Queue Assignment 79

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .80

Interpreting the Network Position Status Counts Display. . . .81

8Configuring 10+ nodes 85

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .86

Configuring the nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87

9Remote supervisor login 99

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

Configuring the hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Configuring the Meridian MAX port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .104

Configuring the NAC port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

Entering the phone number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Accessing the remote site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

10 Handling error messages 115

Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116

Error messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117

Index 119

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Preface

About this guide

In this preface

Overview x

Inside this guide xi

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Overview

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Overview

Introduction The Network Administration Center User Guide Supplement

describes the features in Network Administration Center

(NAC) 2.5.

Who should read

this guide This guide is for administrators, technicians, supervisors, and

others who are responsible for NAC 2.5.

Assumptions This guide assumes that you are familar with NAC 2 and

Meridian MAX.

This guide also assumes that the NAC 2.5 is correctly installed

and operational.

How to use this

guide NAC 2.5 is an upissue of NAC 2. You need to use this

supplement guide to understand the differences between NAC 2

and NAC 2.5.

For detailed instructions on how to install and operate the NAC

system, you must refer to the existing NAC 2 documentation. A

list of the existing documentation is provided in “Required

documentation” on page 13.

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Inside this guide

Standard 1.0 Network Administration Center November 1998

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Inside this guide

The Network Administration Center User Guide Supplement is

structured as follows:

Chapter 1, “What’s new in NAC 2.5,” describes the new

features in NAC 2.5. It also provides the modifications to the

software installation and upgrade code. Finally, this chapter lists

the documentation manuals you should use with NAC 2.5.

Chapter 2, “Preparing the system,” describes the hardware

and software requirements of NAC 2.5. It also describes the

MVME332XTS eight-channel asynchronous board, which is a

new feature in NAC 2.5.

Chapter 3,“Configuring the modems,” describes the modems

you can use with NAC 2.5.

Chapter 4, “Using the Meridian Terminal Emulator,”

describes how to use Meridian Terminal Emulator (MTE) 9 to

access NAC 2.5.

Chapter 5, “Saving to a file,” describes how to save reports

into files. Third-party software, such as database and

spreadsheet applications, can use these files.

Chapter 6, “Handling local printing,” describes how to print

a report to a printer attached to your PC.

Chapter 7, “Using Multiple Queue Assignment,” describes

how to interpret the Network Position Status Counts Display

screen if you usethe Multiple Queue Assignment (MQA)

feature.

Chapter 8, “Configuring 10+ nodes,” describes how to

configure NAC 2.5 to monitor up to 20 Meridian MAX nodes.

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