GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide November 20, 2007 Version: 4.00 Quality Fiber and RF, Inc.
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GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide Reversion History Reversion Date V1.00 Oct. 19, 2006 V1.10 Nov. 27, 2006 Reason for change First draft release Some title reworded By FMC FMC V1.20 Nov. 29, 2006 SNMP monitor added FMC V1.30 Dec. 19, 2006 FMC V1.31 Dec. 23, 2006 V1.40 Jan. 15, 2007 V2.00 Mar. 22, 2007 V3.00 May 22, 2007 V3.10 July 12, 2007 V3.20 July 12, 2007 V4.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide Table of Contents 1 2 3 4 5 Overview .............................................................................................1 1.1 Audience.................................................................................1 1.2 Features..................................................................................1 1.3 Specifications..........................................................................2 1.3.1 Optical Specification .....................
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 5.10 5.11 System Information ...............................................................44 Card Commands...................................................................44 Select a Chassis ...................................................................49 Network Information..............................................................50 SNMP ...................................................................................
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 1 Overview The GMC200 is a high performance, cost effective, carrier grade manageable media converter system, which is intended for applications of the point-to-point fiber-to-the-premises (FTTx) market. The GMC200 platform offers 100BASE-FX to 10/100BASE-TX conversion or 1000BASE-X to 10/100/1000BASE-TX conversion or other media and protocol conversion in the future releases.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide • • • • Dual processor management card for maximize the system performances Dual power supply of load sharing or 1 + 1 automatic over features with over-voltage / under-voltage alarms Dual fans with monitoring and alarm features Standard 19 inch rack mounted. 1.3 Specifications 1.3.1 Optical Specification Interface Type: 1000Base-LX /SX ¾ Dual multimode fiber (50/125μm), single wavelength 850nm, dual SC or LC connectors, operating distance 550m.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide • • Far-end fault detection with disable and enable options. Link transparency to indicate the link down from link partner. 1.3.4 IP Ping Features In addition to the in-band OAM features, GMC200 media converter system also supports IP ping function on some MC units, which allows the network manager to monitor the remote media converter at IP level.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 2 Hardware Descriptions 2.1 Carrier Center Chassis The GMC200 media converter system’s carrier center chassis is shown in the following drawings, The whole rack contains 15 pieces of media converter cards and 1 piece of network management card. All plug-in cards are hotswappable. 2.1.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide The following table shows the power supply LED definitions: Label Color Green State On Off Active Yellow On Standby Off Over V Red On Off Under V Yellow On Off Definition The power is on and supplying the current to the system. The power is off or in standby mode. It is not supplying the current to the system. The power is on and in standby mode. It is not supplying the current to the system.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 2.1.2 Rear Panel Power Supply Slots & Fans There are two slide-in power supply slots on the rear panel to accommodate the power supply modules, which are used to support redundant backup for the chassis. Both power modules can accept either 220VAC or -48VDC supply.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide Slave A Slave B Slave C 2.1.4 Physical and Environmental • • • • • Dimensions: 19-inch rack-mount width, 2.0U height. Weight: 9 Kg Operating temperature: 0 ~ 65 Storage temperature: -25 ~ 85 Humidity: 5% ~ 95% RH Non-condensing 2.2 Remote Converter Unit The following drawing is the outline of the remote converter unit. The unit can be wall-mounted for use in special cases.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 2.2.1 Rear Panel Connector The remote converter unit supports 5V DC power supply options. The following figure shows the power connector on the rear panel. 5VDC 2.2.2 Physical and Environmental • • • • • Dimensions: 125×90×28mm Weight: 0.50Kg Operating temperature: 0 ~ 65 Storage temperature: -25 ~ 85 Humidity: 5% ~ 95% RH Non-condensing 2.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide base processor is responsible for the network protocol processing, while the 16-bit instruction set MCU is used for the system house keeping, such as the communication, control and status gathering between the master and slave chassis, the local and remote converters. The embedded software on the NMC supports command line interface (CLI) based, Web-based and SNMP management options to meet your system management requirements at different levels.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide and the remote converter unit.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide There are six diagnostic and status LEDs on the face panel of media converter card, which are used as the indications of power, optical and UTP ports. As mentioned before, the media converter plug-in card is hot swappable.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide Standard MC RFD P1-FX SPD2 LNK/ACT2 LNK/ACT1 FDX2 PWD APS MC P2-TX RFD P1-FX P3-FX LNK/ACT1 LNK/ACT3 P2-TX FDX2 PWD SPD2 LNK/ACT2 Dual TX MC RFD P1-FX LNK/ACT1 PWD P3-TX FDX3 P2-TX FDX2 SPD3 LNK/ACT3 SPD2 LNK/ACT2 2.4.2 100Base-FX Optical Port Specifications The optical port specifications for the 100 Base-FX plug-in converter card at the central side are listed in the following table.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 2.4.3 1000Base-X Optical Port Specifications As the SFP module is used in the 1000Base-X media converter cards, regarding the 1000Base-X optical port specifications, please refer to the datasheet of the SFP module used.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3 Web-based Management The Web-based management interface is one of many tools specifically designed to assist the network manager in creating complex standalone or network configurations. This guide describes how to use the Web-based management interface to configure and maintain your GMC200 media converter system. It is intended for network managers who are responsible for configuring the system.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide After you type the correct user name and password in the window shown above, you will see the following homepage for the system. It is important to note that GMC200 management system will not automatic log out even if the webpage stays inactive for a period of time. You shall close the page if you think it is necessary. 3.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.2 Select Chassis As a single GMC200 network management unit can manage up to 4 chassis, you shall select a chassis to be managed and monitored prior to any operation. The following figure shows that all the four chassis are connected and are powered. Here the “master” refers to the chassis with RJ45 and DB9 connecter on the front panel of the network management card, which is connected to the management terminal via Ethernet connection.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.3 Chassis Information There are four functional items under the “Chassis Information” tab. They are: • • • Chassis Details Converter Location, and Converter Details. You can display all the chassis related information and configure the local and remote converter parameters here. 3.3.1 Chassis Details The chassis detail information will be shown as below after you click the web page “Chassis Details” under the “Chassis Information” tab.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.3.2 Converter Location The local and remote converter locations can be defined in the following web page. The information could be used to identify the converter. You can put the customers name or location here.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.3.3 Converter Details The following screen capture shows the port status for the selected chassis. The management software will only show the slot status with a plugin in it. If the remote converter is not connected or powered off, its status will not show on the page. Each number in the “Slot No.” column is linked to the converter status, configuration and control page.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.3.4 Converter Status and Configuration You can browse the converter status and configuration page either by clicking the number shown in the “Slot No.” column of “Converter Details” page as above, or direct clicking the converter shown in the chassis graphic. The following screen capture shows the local and remote converters’ detail and configuration items, respectively.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide • • • • Reboot Converter: When you click the “Reboot Converter” button, both the local and remote converters will perform software reset, but all the configurations will be kept. Default Converter: When you click the “Default Converter” button, both the local and remote converters will be reconfigured back to the factory default. Show MIB Counters: Display the content of 32 MIB counters.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.3.5 MIB Counters You can show the converter MIB counters by clicking the web page button of “Show MIB Counters” under the “Local Converter Control” tab. The total of 32 MIB counters will be shown as following web page. All the MIB counters are 32 bits wide, they will overflow in a period of time.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.4 SNMP Configurations Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is the standard for network management that uses a common software agent to manage local and wide area network equipment from different vendors; part of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) suite and defined in RFC1157. SNMPv1 is version one, or the original standard protocol. GMC200 management system supports SNMPv1.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.4.2 SNMP Trap Configuration To create SNMP traps, you should open the “Trap Configuration” page under the “SNMP Configurations” as shown below. First you need to select where the traps come from, then you can select the trap item status, including link up and down status and/or power on and off status.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.5 Network Settings If you want to manage and monitor the GMC200 media converter system remotely, you must have a proper network setting for the system, which include the IP address, subnet mask and default gateway as shown in the following figure. After you have changed the network settings, you shall restart the chassis in order to bring the new setting into effect.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.6 TFTP Utilities GMC200 media converter system provides TFTP utilities for remotely updating the system firmware, system configuration backup and restore. The whole system setup and configuration information can be backup to a data file and then restore back to the system. This feature is helpful for the system administrator to keep track the network information in a safe place, and to speed up the system recover from hardware failure.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.7 Other Utilities The other utilities menu includes four items: • System alarm log, • Real-Time clock, • User account settings, • Serial port settings, and • Loopback test. 3.7.1 Alarm The logged alarms can be shown by clicking “System Alarm Log” under the “Other Utilities”. The alarms include any change on the local and remote converters, such as link up and down, power on and off.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide records, if you have not cleaned up the alarm log for a long period of time, the previous alarms will be over-written by the new one. 3.7.2 Real-Time Clock You can show and modify the real-time clock setting by clicking the “RealTime Clock” under the “Other Utilities”. During the alarm logging procedure, the date and time reading from the real-time clock will be used to help trace up the alarm events. Please set the date and time correctly.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.7.3 User Account Settings The user account settings page provides you a facility to change the user names and passwords. The total of user accounts available are three, the followings are the default settings: 1. “superuser” with default password of “12345678”. This login account will have all the privilege to change and setup the system parameters, including the system firmware upgrade. 2. “admin” with default password of “123”.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide factory default by pressing and holding the reset button on the face plat of the network management card for more than 5 seconds.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.7.4 Serial Port Settings You can show the following serial port setting by clicking the “Serial Port Settings” under the “Other Utilities”.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.7.5 Loopback Testing You can show the loopback test page by clicking the “Loopback Testing” under the “Other Utilities”. If you click the “Apply” button on the “Loopback Testing” page, the local converter will automatically send out 100 loopback frames to the remote converter and then check if the loopback frames are successfully looping back.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide To do the loopback test, you shall follow the two procedures: • Select the card number to be tested, and click “Loopback Test” button, you will see the following page: 33
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide • After a few seconds, the loopback test result will be shown as following: 34
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 3.8 Restart Chassis By clicking the “Restart Chassis” button, you can restart the management module with all the setting unchanged.
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GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 4 SNMP Monitor GMC200 supports standard Ethernet management protocol, user can monitor GMC200 through SNMP software. The following examples are taking ‘MIB-Brower’ from iReasoning company to monitor GMC200. 4.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide Choose “Next” to select both MIB Brower and Start Menu and Desktop Icons. Choose an installation location.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide Click “Close” to complete the installation. 4.2 MIB Brower Usages Launch MIB Brower, the following figure will be shown.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide User can load a MIB file to the MIB tree on the top-left. Choose RFC1213-MIB The RFC1213-MIB and its associated nodes will be shown like this.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide To monitor the GMC200, it required to Input the correct IP address to the Address column, and click the “advanced…” button, set up the correct read and write community.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide Select “system”, all system node information are listed. Choose “sysDescr” node and choose “Get” Operation; when the “Go” button has been clicked, the system description of GMC200 will be given as follow. However, if the “walk” operation has been chosen at this point, all node information will be listed on the MIB Brower.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 5 Command Line Interface (CLI) GMC200 management software also provides a command line interface (CLI) to manage and monitor the system. You can follow the console setting information listed below and use the Windows HyperTerminal or other type of serial terminal emulation program to perform the system management. You can also invoke the CLI using telnet utility from any computer, which has Ethernet connection to the network management card.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide figure will be activated. 5.2 System Information The system information will be shown after you type “show” command in the command line as below. Some of the listed information here can be modified by “set” command described in later section. 5.3 Card Commands Card commands are associated with showing the port status and configuring the local and remote converters.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide “card stat”, “card pre”, “card infor” and “card loc” commands are used to display the card status, card present, card information and card location information, respectively, as shown in the following figures. While the rest of the commands are used to configure the system. It is important to note “#” in the above command represents card number or slot number, where 1 ~ 15 will correspond to the converter in the slot.
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GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 5.4 Select a Chassis As single management unit of GMC200 can manage up to four chassis, you must select a chassis at any time before you try to configure and monitor the media converters in the chassis. The four commands used are: • select master • select slave1 • select slave2 • select slave3 Where the “master” refers to the chassis with DB9 connecter on the front panel, which is connected to the management terminal.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 5.5 Network Information The screen capture shown in the following figure is for the network setting and the related commands. You can follow the command syntax to reconfigure the network settings, which include the IP address, subnet mask and gateway. The default settings shown here are the same as listed in the previous sections in this document. 5.6 SNMP The screen capture shown in the following figure are for SNMP.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide you benefits. 5.7 Alarm Two alarm associated commands are available for the system administrator. The first one is to list all the alarms logged and the second one is to clear all the previous alarms. If you type “alarm’ in the main menu, all the alarm will be shown in the screen as captured in the following figure. “alarm clear” command will delete all the logged alarms.
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GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide 5.10 Reset Command After typing “reset’ in the command line, the following interactive page will appear in the console. You have to confirm the reset action by typing “y”, any other character will lead to end the “reset” command. The “reset” command is used to reset the management software and change all the setting back to the factory default. After “reset” command, you shall reboot the chassis in order to bring the default setting into effect. 5.
GMC200 Media Converter System User Guide any other character will lead to end the “reboot” command. The “reboot” command is used to restart the management software and keep all the setting unchanged.
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