Cisco ONS 15454 Series Procedure Manual page 263

Chapter 6 Create Circuits and VT Tunnels
When routing a test circuit with source and destination ports on the same node, the Fully Protected Path
Step 14
check box is automatically disabled. Choose one of the following options:
To leave the test circuit unprotected, continue with
•
To route the test circuit on a BLSR protection channel, check Protection Channel Access, click Yes
•
in the Warning dialog box, then continue with
Circuits routed on BLSR protection channels are not protected and are preempted during BLSR
Caution
switches.
Step 15 Click Next.
In the Route Review/Edit area, node icons appear for you to route the circuit manually:
Step 16
In the Route Review/Edit area, click the source node icon if it is not already selected.
a.
Starting with a span on the source node, click the arrow of the span you want the circuit to travel.
b.
To reverse the direction of the arrow, click the arrow twice.
The arrow turns white. In the Selected Span area, the From and To fields provide span information.
c.
The source STS appears. If you want to change the source STS, adjust the Source STS field;
otherwise, continue with Step d.
Click Add Span. The span is added to the Included Spans list and the span arrow turns blue.
d.
Repeat Steps
e.
through all intermediary nodes.
Click Finish. If the path does not meet the specified path diversity requirement, CTC displays an error
Step 17
message and allows you to change the circuit path. If you entered more than 1 in the Number of Circuits
field, the Circuit Creation dialog box appears after the circuit is created so you can create the remaining
circuits. Repeat Steps
Step 18 When all the circuits are created, the main Circuits window appears. Verify that the circuits you created
appear in the window.
Stop. You have completed this procedure.
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b through d until the circuit is provisioned from the source to the destination node
7 through 16 for each additional circuit.
NTP-A167 Create an STS Test Circuit around the Ring
Step 15.
Step 15.
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