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Troubleshooting alarms

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Troubleshooting alarms
Flexi Multiradio Base Station alarm examples
Flexi Multiradio BTS GSM/EDGE alarms issued at the BSC or NetAct have a four-digit alarm number, an alarm name, an optional fault reason, and supplementary information. For information about the other fields in the figure below, see BSC/TCSM Product Documentation. In the supplementary information, the 3rd byte indicates the detecting module. RRH is represented by 84, RF Module by 83, and ESMB/C by 82. The fourth and fifth bytes are the optical address and antenna ports respectively. The following is an example of alarm printout for an active alarm on single TRX object as seen at the BSC. In this example, the detecting unit is 83 (RF Module) and the optical address and antenna port are 11 and 21, respectively. In this example, the optical address byte can be broken down as follows: 1 = Unit number 4 MS bits show RP3 link number 1 = Unit number 4 LS bits show position in RP3 link chain The supplementary information gives the location of the antenna on the HW. In this example, the antenna port can be broken down as follows: 2 = Sub-unit number 4 MS bits show branch number 1 = Sub-unit number 4 LS bits show carrier number or antenna within the branch In this case, the antenna port refers to RFM/RRH 1.1 branch 2 antenna 1.
The antenna number refers to the antenna as labeled on the RFM/RRH module.

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Figure 1:

Single TRX alarm printout as seen at the BSC

If the same alarm affects more than two TRX objects, Flexi Multiradio BTS GSM/EDGE reports the other TRXs in one BTS alarm message. The alarm could be related to the RF Module, System Module or Radio Remote Head. BTS reports the Type of plug in unit in Diagnostic info IE Abis O&M message (RM, ESMB/C or RRH ). The affected TRX IDs are listed in the supplementary information field of the alarm printout in case of alarms 7606, 7607, and 7608. The supplementary

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information in one ESMB/C or RF Module alarm can contain a maximum of 15 TRXs and one RRH alarm can contain a maximum of 12 TRXs. The following is an example of alarm printout for an active alarm on TRX-2 and TRX-5 on RF Module as seen at the BSC.

Figure 2:

RF Module alarm printout as seen at the BSC

The text under the alarm name gives the fault reason that has caused the alarm. For example, in the printout above the fault reason is: RF module detected VSWR above major limit. System Module and RRH alarms are shown on BSC in the same way as RF Module alarms. The following are examples for ESMB/C and RRH alarms:

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Figure 3:

Example of System Module (ESMB/C) alarm printout

Figure 4:

Example of RRH alarm printout

Flexi Multiradio BTS GSM/EDGE also runs alarm reclassification as described in section Flexi Multiradio Base Station alarm reclassification.

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In 2G Flexi BTS Site Manager, the fault reason is reported in the Description column, as shown in the following figure.

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Alarm examples, 2G Flexi BTS Site Manager view

Alarm descriptions can also be viewed with a remote 2G Flexi BTS Site Manager connection. During troubleshooting, remote BTS Site Manager connection supports all the features available via a local connection, except the Control Abis interface (enable/disable) commands, initial base station commissioning and undo commissioning. This minimizes needs for on-site troubleshooting.

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2012 Nokia Siemens Networks

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