On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, D A Substanley wrote:
When you do a hard busy on the span, does that immediately disconnect all of the users currently connected to that card, or is it friendlier?
Immediate disconnect. That's the difference between a soft busy and a hard busy. Hard Busy: Issues a local-out-of-service message to the switch, dropping the call in progress and preventing any more from coming in. Soft Busy: Queues a local-out-of-service message, to be executed when the current call finishes. I don't know if it's the HDSP that queues it or if it's sent to the switch and it queues it. If the soft busy isn't working, does a hard busy work? If not, the telco switch isn't listening to you. When you do a soft busy, check it (with TCM) by going selecting the Span and clicking Performance. Then check Timeslot and select the one(s) you did a soft busy on. Then hit Default (for the Parameters in the Function Group 'DS0 Statistics'). If there's a call in progress, the 'DS0 Service State' should be 'inService', and the 'Queued Action for DS0' should be 'localOutOfService'. When the call terminates, the 'DS0 Service State' should go to 'localOutOfService' and the 'Queued Action...' should go to 'none'. If it does that properly, and is still taking calls, we're back to the switch not listening to you. A hard busy probably won't work either. If it doesn't do that properly, whether it's the switch or the HDSP depends on who's supposed to be doing the queueing (switch or DSP). [I dunno. Maybe someone does and will respond to this]. This reminds me of one of my pet peeves. I wish there was a way to mark a MODEM out of service (instead of a span timeslot). I.E, tell the HDSP to never assign a call to a given modem (it'd mean the same thing as a busyout if call selection was fixed, but if you were using round-robin, you could still terminate a full PRI's worth of calls even if you had a stuck modem). I'm just annoyed that modem #24 never gets any calls because I gotta use fixed assignment because it's the only way to skip the occasional stuck modem. </rant> - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.