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1152700 • Issue 1 • February 2001 • Section 2 Operation and Maintenance
Page 2-208
2000, ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
DLP-741
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RETRIEVE LOGS FROM THE NMIC VIA FTP
Summary: This procedure outlines the steps involved for retrieval of the log files stored on the
NMIC for performance, accounting, and alarm history. Log files are automatically updated every
fifteen minutes to the NMIC hard drive and are stored for a 24-hour period. The files can be
retrieved via FTP to a remote management workstation and stored indefinitely on user medium
(i.e. hard disk, floppy disk, tape backup, etc.). This procedure is based on a standard UNIX FTP
program. For other FTP programs, substitute the standard commands with your particular system
“command gets”.
It is assumed that the user will be performing backup of some of this data regularly, generally
every 24 hours. This procedure also assumes the user has gained access to the NMIC via FTP
and has logged on.
Note: Direct access to the files may be entered in one Unix string but for this
procedure we will select one file structure at a time to familiarize the user with the Unix
file locations. For direct access and FTP of the files, go to step 5.
1. First, establish an FTP session with the NMIC using the correct IP address for the desired
network. A login prompt should appear requiring the user to enter the correct user name
and password.
2. To access the files scheduled for back up, change to the cellworx directory on the NMIC
using the following command:
• cd /cellworx
3. Listed under the cellworx directory are files titled “performance”, “alarmHistory”, and
“accounting”. Select the log type that you wish to access by entering the following
command substituting file name with accounting, alarmHistory, or performance:
• cd /cellworx/<file name>
4. The file contents can be displayed by typing “ls” for list or “dir” for directory. The content
of the files are as follows:
• Performance – captures all performance monitoring data from each NE in the
network every fifteen minutes. Performance data includes error counts and
cells discarded for any interface in the node.
• Alarm History – captures all alarm history data for each NE in the network.
Alarm history includes any alarm conditions (performance, physical failures,
housekeeping, etc.), that have been incurred or cleared during each fifteen-
minute log period for each NE in the network.
• Accounting – captures all accounting data for each NE in the network. The
largest part of this is NDC (Network Data Collection), which includes ingress
cells passed, egress cells passed, etc.