User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- About this document
- ipBTS system overview
- Planning
- ipBTS C30 installation
- RN commissioning
- Requirements
- CLI connection
- Establishing a console connection
- Connecting the laptop to the ipBTS C30
- Downloading and activating new software
- Verifying SNTP time
- Commissioning the ipBTS C30
- Performing Loopback tests
- The loopback test process
- Backhaul loopback testing
- Ethernet loopbacks
- Looping back Ethernet backhaul links
- Looping back at the Ethernet port
- Entering diagnostic mode and configuring test parameters
- Performing external loopback tests on backhaul links
- Troubleshooting failed backhaul links
- Removing physical loopbacks
- Configuring IP on the Ethernet port and laptop
- Establishing the CLI/SSH/Ethernet connection
- Updating node software
- RN hardware components
- RN Specifications
- Hot-swapping ipBTS hardware
- Index
Chapter 4 l RN commissioning
CLI connection
Airvana ipBTS C30 Installation and Commissioning, Release 4.0 4-3
• The new software release.
CLI connection
The command line interface (CLI) enables text-based, command-oriented management of the
ipBTS. You can access the CLI in three ways:
Connecting to the serial port
This is a direct connection to the serial port on the ADCC control card. This is the simplest
form of CLI connection. It is only available when you are local to the serial port. This form of
CLI connection is required during initial phases of commissioning. For example, you must use
a CLI serial connection to set the Ethernet IP address if you then want to SSH using the
Ethernet ports.
The CLI/serial connection is made by connecting a laptop running terminal emulation software
to the serial port on the ADCC module.
You can only have a single serial connection to a ipBTS C30 when using a serial port. The
serial connection requires a cable to link the serial port on the network element to a serial port
(typically a COM port) on a laptop or other device. Launch a terminal emulation program on
the laptop (such as HyperTerminal) and configure the communications settings appropriately.
SSH using Ethernet port
This connection mode uses a laptop’s Ethernet adapter to connect to the Ethernet port on the
ADCC module. Configure the IP address on the laptop attached to the Ethernet port, and
establish an SSH session for CLI access.
Make the CLI/SSH/ Ethernet connection by connecting an Ethernet adapter on your laptop to
the Ethernet port on the ADCC module, directly using a straight through cable. You must
configure appropriate IP addresses and masks on the ADCC Ethernet port (using the serial
port) and on the laptop Ethernet port. Establish an SSH session and open a CLI session with
the ipBTS C30 using the node IP address or the Ethernet IP address.
Because you can open multiple CLI sessions at a time using SSH, this method is required
during certain phases of the commissioning procedure.
Straight through
serial cable
ipBTS RN
ADCC Ethernet port