External Link Failure

Operating Instructions

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Contents

Contents

1 Select Remedy Action for External Link Failure 1

2 Remedy Action for ENodeBFunction 2

3 Remedy Action for Ssh and Tls: No common cipher 

available, link cannot be established. 4

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Select Remedy Action for External Link Failure

1 Select Remedy Action for External Link

Failure

External Link Failure is a primary alarm.

Table 1 Alarm Summary 

Managed Object Additional Text Link to Recovery

Actions
ENodeBFunction Remedy action is Remedy actions
independent of 
additional text.
Ssh No common cipher  Remedy actions
available, link cannot be

established
Tls No common cipher  Remedy actions
available, link cannot be
established

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External Link Failure

2 Remedy Action for ENodeBFunction

The External Link Failure alarm is raised when the X2 link to at least one
neighboring
neighboring eNodeB is down after four resetup attempts. The time between
each resetup attempt is controlled by the x2RetryTimer. For more
information, see x2retryTimerStart .

The specific eNodeBs, to which the X2 links are down, are listed as Additional
Information in the alarm. Each listed eNodeB is named by the PLMN Id and
the eNodeB Id within that PLMN. The listed eNodeBs are sorted with the
oldest failed X2 link in the top of the list. The list can contain a maximum of 
nine failed X2 links. If more than nine failed links have been detected, the
tenth Additional Information is PLMN ID-eNB ID list truncated.

Direct communication is disabled between the neighboring eNodeBs.

Communication between the eNodeBs is routed through the MME.

Prerequisites

 At least one TermPointToEnb MO has been in UNLOCKED administrativ

administrativee
state and DISABLED operational state after four unsuccessful X2 link resetup
attempts.

Steps

If there are more than one failed X2 links, resolve them one by one. Repeat
the following steps for each failed link:

1. Sel
Select
ect a fa
faile
iled
d llink
ink to anal
analyze
yze..

2. Che
Check
ck that
that the
the corres
correspon
pondin
ding
g TermPointToEnb MO of the remote
eNodeB is not in the LOCKED administrative state.
If the TermPointToEnb MO is in the LOCKED administrative state, do the
following:

3. Unlock the TermPointToEnb MO.

If there are no more failed links to correct, do the
t he following:

4. Wait 3 mi
minute
nutes
s.
If the alarm remains, do the following:

5. Chec
Check
k the underl
underlying
ying trans
transport
port networ
network k betw
between
een the
the eNodeB
eNodeB an
and
d the
remote eNodeB for faults. If there are faults, correct them.
If the alarm remains for any of the links, do the following:

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Remedy Action for ENodeBFunction

6. Consult
Consult the next level
level of maintena
maintenance
nce supp
support.
ort.

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External Link Failure

3 Remedy Action for Ssh and Tls: No

common cipher available, link cannot be
established.

The External Link Failure alarm can be raised if there is a cipher 

mismatch (the client and server does not have a common cipher) and a link
cannot be set up.

To resolve the mismatch between the ciphers do the following:

Prerequisites

 Access to the NMS.

Steps

1. En
Ente
terr th
the
e NMS.

2. Chec
Check
k the active
active c
ciphe
ipherr suites
suites in the
the clie
client
nt and the
the ser
server
ver..

3. Ensu
Ensure
re tha
thatt the cli
client
ent and
and the se
server
rver have
have at le
least
ast on
one
e com
common
mon an
and
d
activated cipher suite.

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