User`s guide

Routine maintenance 18-5
Monitoring Meridian Mail hardware
Standard 1.0 System Administration Guide January 1998
Monitoring Meridian Mail hardware
Introduction
The System Status and Maintenance menu provides monitoring
and control screens through which you obtain views of the
operational state of the system at four levels:
• system status
• card status
• DSP port status
• disk status
Description
The System Status and Maintenance functions are used in the
course of routine maintenance and enable you to take any
component of the system out of service while performing
maintenance. A component can be taken out of service by
disabling it (forcing it out of its operational state), or by
performing a courtesy disable, which progressively disables
active DSP ports as they become idle. The Courtesy Disable
feature avoids any disruption of calls in progress.
What to check
The System Status and Maintenance menu provides options for
viewing the system status, card status, and DSP port and disk
status. From this menu, you can also manipulate the Channel
Allocation Table, perform Disk Maintenance, and view System
Event and Error Reports.
The Hardware Administration screens allow you to view the
contents of the hardware database in your Meridian Mail
system. The hardware database is a system utility that maintains
a current listing and description of all nodes, cards, and ports in
your system.
Modifying the
hardware database
To modify the hardware database, you must use the “modify
hardware” tool. Refer to Meridian Mail System Administration
Tools (NTP 555-7001-305).
Frequency
Check the operation of Meridian Mail hardware periodically
and when a problem is reported by the system.