
Nokia MetroSite EDGE Base Station
Alarm Descriptions
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Contents
1 About this document 9
2 BTS alarm handling 11
2.1 Alarm examples 11
2.1.1 Alarms seen at the BSC or NMS 11
2.1.2 Alarms seen at the BTS 13
2.2 Troubleshooting faults 13
2.3 Fault reporting 14
2.4 Alarm reclassification 14
3 BTS alarm descriptions 17
3.1 Using an alarm description table 17
3.2 Alarm description tables 18
Contents 5
List of tables 6
List of figures 7
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List of tables
Table 1. Description of the fields in the alarm description table 17
Table 2. 7208 LOCAL BLOCK 18
Table 3. 7401 EXTERNAL ALARM 7401-7410, EXTERNAL ALARM 1-10 18
Table 4. 7600 BCF FAULTY 19
Table 5. 7601 BCF OPERATION DEGRADED 19
Table 6. 7602 BCF NOTIFICATION 20
Table 7. 7603 BTS FAULTY 21
Table 8. 7604 BTS OPERATION DEGRADED 21
Table 9. 7605 BTS NOTIFICATION 22
Table 10. 7606 TRX FAULTY 22
Table 11. 7607 TRX OPERATION DEGRADED 23
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Table 12. 7609 TRE FAULTY 23
Table 13. 7615 RTS IN TEST USE 24
Table 14. 7616 OSCILLATOR ADJUSTMENT TEMPORARILY
INTERRUPTED 24
Table 15. 7617 SEVERAL CALLS DROPPED DUE PROBLEM WITH
TRANSCODER 24
Table 16. 7620 INCOMING POWER LOST 25
Table 17. 7621 INTOLERABLE CONDITIONS ON SITE 25
Table 18. 7622 CABINET OPEN 26
Table 19. 7801 MMI CONNECTED TO BASE STATION 26
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List of figures
Figure 1. Example 1, active alarms as seen at the BSC 12
Figure 2. Example 2, active alarm as seen at the BSC 12
Figure 3. Alarms view on Nokia MetroSite BTS Manager desktop 13
Figure 4. Faulty and degraded object alarm reclassification 15
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