Troubleshooting guide
Troubleshooting Guide
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Service Units
Table 11: Service Unit Troubleshooting
Symptom Probable Cause Corrective Action
Network Service Units
NSU not functioning correctly. Issue with external equipment. Check external equipment.
Faulty fiber connection between 
NSU and controller.
Fix the fiber connection, and ensure that 
the LEDs of both FIMs are solid green.
Programming error. Check the programming in the following 
forms:
• MSDN/DPNSS/DASS2 Trunk Circuit 
Descriptor Assignment 
• Miscellaneous Assignment (for 
NSU-BRI only)
• Link Descriptor Assignment.
NSU fails to come up after 
upgrade or new installation 
(Both the red and amber 
LEDs, or just the amber LED, 
are alternating between 
L0/L1).
Automatic NSU upgrade is in 
progress.
Wait 15–20 minutes for the NSU upgrade 
to complete.
CAUTION: Do not power 
down when the amber LED 
is alternating between 
L0/L1. Powering down the NSU may 
corrupt the NSU software.
The LEDs are flashing green 
and amber for more than 30 
minutes during an NSU 
upgrade.
Corrupted NSU software. Refer to Technical Bulletin 58004932 for 
information on flashing the NSU.
NSU fails to come up after 
upgrade or new installation. 
NSU continues to reset on a 
regular interval and/or the 
LEDs on L0 and L1 continue in 
alternating flash cycle longer 
than 30 minutes.
NSU flash is corrupted.  Refer to Mitel Knowledge Base article 
04-1000-00026_2 for instructions.
NSU fails to load after upgrade 
or install with “Unexpected 
database error”
Database version is unsupported 
(incompatible).
Refer to Mitel Knowledge Base article 
04-5115-00002 for instructions.
NSU or PRI card fail to load 
after upgrade or database 
restore.
NSU and PRI cards fail to load 
because the database version 
does not match the current 
software load on the card.
Refer to Mitel Knowledge Base article 
05-5134-00023.
NSU keeps resetting with no 
IMAT db error message.
No IMAT database is saved to the 
NSU (PRI/QSIG).
Use IMAT to save the corresponding 
database to NSU (PRI/QSIG).
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