subject: BNS-2000 Release 5.0 Build 88 Release Letter date
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1. CHANNELIZED FRM T1 MODULE tlfrm 5 0 50 TSM8 MODULE tsm8 5 0 59 HIGH SPEED TSM MODULE tsmt1 5 0 50 TRKE3 MODULE trke3 5 0 88 TRKE3A MODULE trke3a 5 0 88 TRKT3 MODULE trkt3 5 0 85 TRKT3A MODULE trkt3a 5 0 85 TRKT3S MODULE trkt3 5 0 85 TSMT1 MODULE tsmt1 5 0 50 X 25 MODULE xim 5 0 59 RS232 X 25P MODULE xprr 5 0 77 V 35 X 25P MODULE xprv 5 0 77 2 YEAR 2000 SUPPORT The year 2000 is supported in this release all builds 3 UMI SUPPORT Connectivity between an IP network and a BNS refers to both BNS 2000 and BNS 2000 VCS aka Datakit II VCS network is accomplished using the Universal Mediation Interface Module UMI As a state of the art solid state module that resides in a BNS node the UMI is both a replacement and enhancement of the LCS60 product Beginning with Build 82 BNS 2000 Release 5 0 allows a UMI module to be configured as stan dard BNS module namely a UMI module in the node Prior to this release the UMI was configured on the BNS controller as a SAM504 mapping 504 BNS ports to 504 virtual ports residing in the IP network All IP configuration data was entered directly on the UMI console Hence every virtual port had to be configured twice once on the node and once on the UMI module itself With this release the Base Configuration of the UMI and the configuration of all the virtual ports vports including their IP information is performed on the BNS node only and downloaded to the UMI module when it is rest2. for trunk T1 This problem has been fixed Customer reported a problem with auto removing babbling ports We found that it works when the ports are configured as SAM terminal port and didn t work when the ports are configured as SAM host port This problem has been fixed Made changes to the DVDELETE command to allow at to remove UMI files for the UMI module Customers want to backup the database to the hosts but the BACKUP HOST command only backups cfdata sysgen and comments files It did not backup the ipgate file and umi files The same problem also exist for the RETRIEVE HOST command Both commands have been changed to handle ipgate and UMI files There is a problem that the database didn t get sync ed when backing up the database and other files to the host This problem has been fixed While testing UMI in our lab it was noticed that the controller caused the UMI calls come down during a warm reboot init controller This problem has bee n fixed 8 BUILD 84 MODIFICATIONS 8 1 Control Computer 1 Qwest requested a stress test of putting multiple UMI vports into the FIX state While test ing this another problem was found where call process software for SAMs would not exit after hitting 179 ports After 179 ports were in the FIX state trying to set up additional calls would fail This problem has been fixed To support UMI build 21 there are four new options for SNMP MIB IL sysComm sysCon tact sysName sysLocati
3. sometimes leaving off one or two modules of the display This problem has been fixed 12 BUILD 80 MODIFICATIONS 12 1 Control Computer 1 Add new load module pvc 4p r1 for the slm module for BS 2 Enhancement of comand dvdisplay tblmod by adding feature of displaying information on used channels and available channels 3 Update the copyright year range to the current year 2001 4 For the command dvdisplay tblsum active modules summary display was confusing because controller channels were excluded This change adds the controller channels to the display A final total of available channels has also been added to further reduce confusion 5 Fix the alarm 8455 which doesn t work properly 13 BUILD 79 MODIFICATIONS 13 1 Control Computer 1 Enhancement of comand dmeas conn by adding feature of displaying information on average calls and currently active calls 2 Update the copyright year range to the current year 2001 3 The command dvdisplay tblsum was not correctly disinguishing between the 64k and the 256k switch Also error returns from some of the switch subroutines were being ignored T his change repairs both of these defects 14 BUILD 78 MODIFICATIONS 14 1 SMDS Modules 1 A user reported that the output of the dstat report for the TRKT3A module was incorrect The operating state was reported as being down when in fact the trunk was up and data transport was taking place The problem has been isolated an
4. DIFICATIONS 16 1 Control Computer 16 2 X 25P CONTENTS DOWNLOADABLE MODULES VERSIONS YEAR 2000 SUPPORT UMISUPPORT BUILD 88 MODIFICATIONS NNN DD DD DD DD ABD AGT Pr ARA ARA WHO WwW WwW N N PR
5. Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Innovations subject BNS 2000 Release 5 0 Build 88 Release Letter date September 10 2004 from BNS 2000 Customer Support Release Description This letter contains a description of maintenance changes made in BNS 2000 Release 5 0 Build 88 Unless stated otherwise in this document the modifications described within are compatible with those issues of BNS 2000 associated products e g StarKeeper NMS CommKit Software intended to support this version of the product Release 5 0 Note that a new Software Registration Key is required In all descriptions below alarms are referred to by their unique id number unid This is con sistent with the convention in the Data Networking Products Messages Reference 1 DOWNLOADABLE MODULES VERSIONS Note that when upgrading from Release 1 2 2 0 3 0 and 4 0 the boot of Release 5 0 Build 88 will cause all downloadable modules e g AIT1 TRKT1 to be loaded with new software This will result in the teardown of any existing circuits on these module types until after the down load is complete For connectionless traffic the transmission facility will not be available until the download is complete When upgrading from earlier builds of Release 5 0 the boot of Release 5 0 Build 88 will only cause a downloadable module e g TSM8 SAM to be loaded with new software if a software change has been made to that module since the last build on the customer
6. back we deleted AIM and BRIDGE modules since they have been DA d for a long time Customer reports that not all alarms were being reported to SK We found that alarm 8455 was being reported but not alarm 8452 As it turns out 8455 is a Major alarm and 8452 is classified as Informational SK only logs Critical Major and Minor alarms not Informa tional So alarm 8452 has been changed from type informational to type major The Auto Remove Babbling Ports feature was not working properly The message said that the ports were being marked as DEAD but were not being removed The SKII was getting repeated messages and it was generating as many as 36 message log files a day The prob lem has been fixed The SAM call process was changed for synchronous ports The STATION ID and Message of the Day are no longer sent to ports configured as synchronous A problem was found at AT amp T while installing UTM boards into MPC concentrators If a high baud rate was configured ie 1 544M the node would lock up If a low baud rate ie 9600 was configured the node and the concentrator would operate with no problems The problem has been fixed 8 The dvdisplay tblsumm would sometimes fail to display the details for one or two slots This problem was traced to a counter which controlled the number of items sent to the sort routine The problem has been repaired 11 BUILD 81 MODIFICATIONS 11 1 Control Computer 1 The command dvdisplay tblsumm was
7. c terminals and couldn t do it although he could run dstat on an individual terminal successfully This problem has been corrected Billing connections were not hanging up when a trunk that they traversed failed The prob lem has been fixed When a password was administered on the node s B port the user would not get prompted for it but would be connected to the node This has been fixed A dmeas on an AIT1 port could show the BUF UTIL higher than the PEAK BUF UTIL This is not right since the PEAK BUF UTIL should always be greater than or equal to the BUF UTIL The formula to calculate the values used inconsistent variables The for mula has been made consistent The UTILITY command dksar was displaying negative values for the FREEBUFS column due to an variable type that was unable to handle the amount of actual data reported This has been corrected The UTILITY command mcsusage was confusing in the way it reported Controller Chan nel counts in section 2 of it s report The counts show the internal allocation of tables for controller channels and not the actual usage of those channels This has been clarified both in the output of the command and the description of the command in the documentation The UTILITY command bputil would sometimes report a negative value for the back plane utilization total words transmitted The problem was in the timer used to calculate this number not being accurate enough to compute
8. d fixed 15 BUILD 77 MODIFICATIONS 15 1 Control Computer 1 There was a problem where some nodes were reporting T Bus Streaming Parity Errors dur ing normal traffic patterns The node was reporting the condition on every occurrence of an all ones pattern rather than on a true streaming condition A threshold has been added to the controller to throttle this alarm under normal occurrences and report it correctly only when the streaming condition occurs 2 Alarm 7009 was improperly documented with information only relating to multi switch nodes The text was clarified to cover handling this alarm in single switch node configurations See Product Documentation Notice for this alarm attached for more infor mation Enhancements were added to the set command allowing options of spackets and elog Set ting spackets on will display the status packet received from the module that generated the alarm Setting elog on will display a summary of parity errors sorted by module at five minute intervals See the Product Documentation Notice attached for more details about these new options The dvdisplay command was modified to add the option tblsumm displaying switch configuration and routing information For more details about this command see the Pro duct Documentation Notice attached for the dvdisplay command 16 BUILD 76 MODIFICATIONS 16 1 Control Computer 1 A problem existed where a customer tried to run dstat on a range of bs
9. estore a UMI vport that was already in service It was discovered this could also occur on the A port This problem was fixed 10 BUILD 82 MODIFICATIONS 10 1 Control Computer 1 Add a new feature in the controller for configuring a UMI module as a UMI instead of as a SAM504 Details are given in the document Universal Mediation Interface UMI Module User s Manual Supplement For BNS Datakit I VCS Nodes New features were added to build 20 of the UMI The controller has been changed to access those new features Build 20 or later of the UMI is needed to utilize these features If they are configured on the controller but the UMI is not running a version that supports those features the configuration will just be ignored These features are completely described in the updated version of Universal Mediation Interface UMI Module User s Manual Sup plement For BNS Datakit I VCS Nodes which can be found at http www datatekcorp com Several new features were added in build 20 of a UMI The ability to configure these features in a Datakit node was added in this release build 89 Among these features are s CUGS for SNMP requests e Multiple DNS entries s The configuration of PDD strings in mnemonic form for IP destinations This feature requires that a DTK41 IO board is used with a Series 1 2 UMI module When a customer installed BNS 2000 VCS R6 build 88 they had a problem with file system space In order to get some space
10. on added to DK BNS interface to configure Note that a DTK41 is not required to save these initial values when the DK BNS interface is used Update the copyright year range to the current year 2003 In R5 0 build 82 the load module BRIDGE was deleted in order to get some space back However BRIDGE is used by the ait3p module which is two board module for establish ing the communicaton between the two boards So BRIDGE was put back 9 BUILD 83 MODIFICATIONS 9 1 Control Computer 1 BellSouth reported that the problem with retrieve umi failure in BNS 2000 VCS Datakit release R6 0 This problem has been fixed and rolled forward to this release There was a problem with UMI option missing from retrieve command in BfNS 2000 release This problem has been fixed It was found that if the settings for PAP CCAR and BAUD RATE were incorrectly set problems would occur during UMI call setup The correct settings to enter are PAP off CCAR off and BAUD NO AUTO After converting from a SAM504 to a UMI the IP address and related configuration showed incorrect data This problem has been fixed There is a problem when a converting from a SAM504 to a UMI the output of verify umi vport incorrectly shows vports as configured and in service which were never entered into the database This problem has been fixed The connection between the StarKeeper host and a node would be disconnected when the StarKeeper administrator tried to r
11. ored to service The major benefits are that all the IP configuration information for the module and all the virtual ports can be entered changed verified saved and backed up on the BNS controller just like for any other BNS module and once only 4 BUILD 88 MODIFICATIONS 4 1 Control Computer 1 The problem with database upgrade out of sync when auto backup is enabled for dual con troller system has been fixed A customer requested that the SNMP PORT prompt be skipped in the ENTER CHANGE UMI MODULE commands if the value of the SNMP ADDR parameter is none This request has been implemented Per Verizon requests the DSTAT UMI and DMEAS UMI commands have been added and the output reports will use UMI terminology A VERIFY COMMENT UMI command has been added to this release and the timeout problem in the VERIFY COMMENT command has been fixed 5 BUILD 87 MODIFICATIONS 5 1 Control Computer 1 When the more virtual circuits feature was incorporated into the BNS 2000 software start ing after build 59 automatic switchovers will not work when CMA1 switch modules are used This problem has been fixed Automatic switchovers always worked when CTG13 switch module are used Updated the copyright year range to the current year 2004 Changed all the messages for the install registration command to provide the Datatek con tact information instead of Lucent Technologies information for both Datakit R6 and BNS R5 BellSouth
12. requested the vport information be displayed in the output of the command display connection for UMI modules This feature has been added The problem with MESSAGE TOO LONG FORCING BREAK on the verify group com mand for a UMI has been fixed The maximum host id value was increased from 16 to 32 It was not consistently increased on the controller This problem has been fixed for the enter change delete and verify UMI commands The problem with T3 links going down on installation of a new build was caused by all of the SMDS modules being re built in every build regardless of whether a software change has been made that affects them This problem has been fixed 6 BUILD 86 MODIFICATIONS 6 1 Control Computer 1 Customer asked for the change for the VERIFY GROUP command to display UMI vport information instead of SAM port information This change has been made in the release Add changes to samp to send dialstring information to an UMI The change is to pass VLP information to the UMI The DT 6061 application IP_LMCR which is being written as a replacement for the LMOS CRT DKAP application uses dialstring and originating group for security This information is also going to be used for future enhancements to other applications This software and build 23 or higher of the UMI will be necessary for the IP_LMCRT application 7 BUILD 85 MODIFICATIONS 7 1 Control Computer 1 BellSouth reported a problem with MOVE COPY command
13. s node For example if a customer were running Build 49 on their node and they upgraded the node to Build 50 only downloadable modules that were changed in Build 50 would redownload with the new software In the table below the version numbers of the modules for the current build are listed The last digits of the version number those following the last denote the build number If the Frame Relay Module FRM had a version number of frm 5 0 51 that would mean that the latest version of that module was built in Build 51 This will result in the teardown of any existing circuits on these module types until after the download is complete T BNS 2000 RELEASE 5 0 DOWNLOADABLE MODULES Downloadable Module Version AIT1 MODULE ait1 5 0 88 AIT3 MODULE ait3 5 0 88 AIT3PE MODULE ait3pe 5 0 88 AIT3PI MODULE ait3pi 5 0 88 BSC HOST MODULE bsch 5 0 50 BSC TERM MODULE bsct 5 0 50 CPMML MODULE cpmml 5 0 50 DKAP MODULE dkap 5 0 50 CHANNELIZED FRM E1 MODULE elfrm 5 0 50 V 35 FRM MODULE frm 5 0 50 CHANNELIZED FRM M2 E1 MODULE fre1 5 0 88 CHANNELIZED FRM M2 T1 MODULE frt1 5 0 88 GAR MODULE gar 5 0 88 HIGH SPEED CPMML MODULE hscm1 5 0 50 HIGH SPEED DKAP MODULE hsdkp 5 0 77 ICIT3E MODULE icit3e 5 0 88 ICIT3I MODULE icit31 5 0 88 LAN PROTOCOL MODULE Ipm 5 0 77 TRK PQ MODULE pwt 5 0 50 SAMML MODULE samml 5 0 50 SDLC8 MODULE sdlc8 5 0 50
14. the result properly Timing is now done using a more precise clocking which fixes the problem An option r is also added to display the exact number of clock ticks elapsed during the counting period 16 2 X 25P 1 An X 25P problem existed where the module did not handle the frame reject packet FRMR correctly instead retransmitting the frame with the wrong frame size causing an infinite looping situation This problem has been corrected The link on an X25P module port was not being brought back up when the module was restored to service if it was an RS 232 connection configured for internal clocking and the DROP DTR option was set to YES The link would also fail to come back up when a port configured for DROP DTR set to YES was removed modified and restored These prob lems have been fixed AeA WO 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 BUILD 87 MODIFICATIONS BUILD 86 MODIFICATIONS BUILD 85 MODIFICATIONS BUILD 84 MODIFICATIONS BUILD 83 MODIFICATIONS 4 1 Control Computer 5 1 Control Computer 6 1 Control Computer 7 1 Control Computer 8 1 Control Computer 9 1 Control Computer BUILD 82 MODIFICATIONS 10 1 Control Computer BUILD 81 MODIFICATIONS 11 1 Control Computer BUILD 80 MODIFICATIONS 12 1 Control Computer BUILD 79 MODIFICATIONS 13 1 Control Computer BUILD 78 MODIFICATIONS 14 1 SMDS Modules BUILD 77 MODIFICATIONS 15 1 Control Computer BUILD 76 MO
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