Installation On A Bts 10200 Host - Cisco BTS 10200 Troubleshooting Manual

Chapter 15 Diagnostic Tests

Installation on a BTS 10200 Host

BTSSTAT is part of BTSTOOLS package. This package is installed automatically when you install BTS
10200. The tool is in the /opt/bts/bin directory after installation.
No specific installation/upgrade/fallback procedure is required for this tool.
Installation on a non-BTS 10200 Host
To install BTSSTAT on a non-BTS 10200 host:
Step 1 Make sure that the host is Solaris-SPARC based and that the SSL connection from the host to the target
BTS 10200 system is allowed.
Step 2 Obtain the BTSSTAT executable file and the XML parser library.
On an installed BTS 10200 system, the two files are located at /opt/bts/bin/btsstat and
/opt/BTSlib/lib/libxerces-c.so.26.
Step 3 Transfer the two files into the non-BTS 10200 host.
Step 4 Make sure that the BTSSTAT file has the right permission and that the library file libxerces-c.so.26 is in
$LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
Provide your own configuration file (see
Step 5
Step 6 Now the btsstat command can be run as
btsstat -f cfg_file
For upgrade, the two files can be simply overwritten.
For fallback, the two files can be simply replaced by the previous version.
Call Tracer (CTRAC)
The BTS 10200 Call Tracer (CTRAC) feature provides a mechanism that uniquely marks each BTS
10200 system call to provide a system call trace troubleshooting capability.
In the BTS 10200 releases prior to Release 5.0, TRACE logs captured the detailed operations of the call
processing system, had a practical problem in that there was no easy means to filter out TRACE logs
pertaining to a single basic or feature call. Troubleshooters had to manually correlate log lines and
manually filter out those that pertained to specific calls. This was tedious and resulted in more time being
spent to identify the correlated trace logs rather than isolating the original problem.
The CTRAC feature provides an easy means to filter out TRACE log lines that correspond to a specific
basic or feature call. The filtering is enabled by a unique CTRAC-ID set unconditionally for every call
attempt (at the earliest point in time in call processing) and provides a copy of it to all call-processing
modules in the BTS 10200 (across platforms). The CTRAC-ID is used for logging seamlessly into
per-call related TRACE lines corresponding to the call.
Because every per-call related TRACE log line has a CTRAC-ID, a user can use UNIX grep or a similar
command to filter out the lines of interest using the CTRAC-ID.
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