Installation Manual

nanoBTS Installation Manual

Getting Started with BTS Installer

3 GETTING STARTED WITH BTS INSTALLER

After the nanoBTS hardware has been installed on site, it must be commissioned into the

network. This is done by configuring the nanoBTS with BTS Installer. This chapter

provides an overview of BTS Installer and installation instructions. Refer to the following

chapter for instructions on commissioning a nanoBTS with BTS Installer. Readers familiar

with BTS Installer may wish to skip this chapter.

Note: While it is possible to pre-configure a nanoBTS before it is installed on site, this

manual assumes that a nanoBTS will be configured after site installation.

3.1 Configuration Phases

Configuration of a nanoBTS takes place in a number of phases. In automatic mode (see

section 3.2.1) all enabled phases are run automatically one after another in a fixed order.

In manual mode the user chooses which phase to run, one at a time, and can also perform

other actions which are not equivalent to automatic configuration phases.

The configuration phases are, in the order in which they are run in automatic mode:

1. Setting the nanoBTS’ IP configuration using the built-in DHCP server.

2. Setting the nanoBTS’ Unit ID.

3. Setting the nanoBTS’ non-volatile attributes.

4. Downloading a file to the nanoBTS.

Each phase can be enabled or disabled separately for each nanoBTS. The download file

can download any one of: software; a certificate; a certificate revocation list, but can only

download one file at a time.

The BTS Status section of the user interface gives a quick reference to which phases are

enabled for which nanoBTSs: this is indicated by the colour code in the columns headed

respectively DHCP, UNIT Id, NV Attr, D’LOAD. Grey indicates that this phase is disabled

for this nanoBTS, any other colour indicates that this phase is enabled for this nanoBTS.

Status colours other than grey are accompanied either by explanatory text, or by a symbol

(Grey = no symbol, Red = cross, Yellow = question mark, Red = tick).

3.2 Modes of Operation

BTS Installer has a variety of different modes of operation, to suit different circumstances

and requirements.

3.2.1 Manual and Automatic Operation

BTS Installer has an automatic mode of operation, in which it will apply all enabled phases

of configuration to all known nanoBTSs in parallel, and when it has finished it will produce

a summary in the log window and log file and will display in the BTS Status window which

phases of configuration for which nanoBTSs have succeeded and which have failed.

This automatic mode of operation is initiated by pressing the Auto button in the BTS

Database Log section of the user interface.