Monitor Configuration utility: moncfg

Scans the NA SS7 Monitor Software configuration text file and downloads the configuration to the monitor task on the TX board.

Usage

moncfg options

Prerequisites

Procedure

Follow this procedure to run moncfg:

Step

Action

1

From the command line prompt, navigate to the \Program Files\Dialogic\tx\bin directory under Windows or the /opt/dialogic/tx/bin directory under UNIX.

2

Enter the following command:

moncfg options

where options include:

Option

Description

-b boardnum

Board number to which the NA SS7 Monitor Software configuration is downloaded.
Default = 1.

-f filename

Name and location of the NA SS7 Monitor Software configuration file to be downloaded.


The Monitor Configuration utility scans the information in the ASCII file (specified with the -f option) and downloads the information to the monitor task on the TX board.


The NA SS7 Monitor Software configuration file is a text file with the following format:

 # Monitoring general configuration section
RECV_LSSU          FALSE      # TRUE/FALSE - Send up LSSUs?
RECV_FISU          FALSE      # TRUE/FALSE - Send up FISUs?
MTP2HDR            FALSE      # TRUE/FALSE - Include MTP2 Header?
TIMER_TIND         5  # Max amount of time to wait before sending data inds
NUM_BUFS           500
SIZE_BUFS          1000


#---  Monitoring link parameters 
LINK               0 
LINK_TYPE          ANSI       # ANSI/ITU/ANSI_EXT/ITU_EXT
PORT_NUM           1 
PORT_TYPE          TDM        # TDM
MAX_FRAME          272 
NUM_BUFFERS        500 
SIZE_BUFFERS       400 
END 
 

#---  Monitoring link parameters
LINK               1
LINK_TYPE          ANSI       # ANSI/ITU/ANSI_EXT/ITU_EXT
PORT_NUM           2 
PORT_TYPE          TDM        # TDM
MAX_FRAME          272 
NUM_BUFFERS        500 
SIZE_BUFFERS       400 
END

The first link defined in the NA SS7 Monitor Software configuration file is always half link 0 (zero), the second is always link 1, and so on.

The following table lists general configuration parameters and values:

Parameter

Value

Default

Description

RECV_FISU

TRUE|FALSE

FALSE

When TRUE, FISUs are forwarded to the host application.

RECV_LSSU

TRUE|FALSE

FALSE

When TRUE, LSSUs are forwarded to the host application.

MTP2HDR

TRUE|FALSE

FALSE

When TRUE, MTP2 headers are forwarded to the host application.

NUM_BUFS

50 - 1000

500

Count of the buffers to use to send data indications to the host.

SIZE_BUFS

300 - 1900

1000

Size of the buffers to use to send data indications to the host.

TIMER_TIND

0 - 60

5

Number of seconds to wait until forwarding a data indication to the host. If zero, send one packet per buffer immediately.


The following table lists the monitoring link parameters and values. All parameters are optional (default values are shown) except the LINK port assignment and the terminating END statement.

Parameter

Value

Default

Description

DATA_ENC

NRZ or NRZI

NRZ

Data encoding (NRZ or NRZ inverted).

LINK

T1-T128

None

Link index.

LINK_TYPE

ANSI, ITU, ANSI_EXT, or ITU_EXT

ANSI

Protocol variant. The _EXT values indicate high speed links using extended sequence numbers.

MAX_FRAME

64 - 1024

272

Maximum frame length for MSU.

NUM_BUFFERS

50 - 1000

500

Number of buffers in pool. (Dialogic does not recommend changing this parameter.)

PORT_NUM

1 - 16 (TX 4000/20 and TX 4000/20C)

1 - 32 (TX 4000 and TX 4000C)

1 – 128 (TX 5000 Series)

None

Maps to TDM port parameter.

Note: The maximum port number for TX 5000 Series boards is determined by licensing options with a maximum of 128 ports available.

PORT_TYPE

TDM

TDM

Port type. Serial ports are no longer supported.

SIZE_BUFFER

300 - 500

400

Size of buffer in pool (Dialogic does not recommend changing this parameter.)