Creating a New Configuration

Define the Configuration

Before any communication can occur between the host and the network, the system must be configured: the SS7 network must know which units, cards, ports and links it is communicating with.

In order to work this out:

1. Draw a map of your system configuration, showing the components.

2. Find out detailed configuration information for each component using the commands ss7TsuPing and ss7TscPing.

Create the new configuration.

1. Run cfgCreate on the Platform Manager

2. 	WARNING! Do not create the configuration directly in /etc/opt/OC

Run cfgInstall to move the new configuration to running state

Configure the hardware.

1. To discover the hardware, use the cfgSs7HwCreate command.

2. To complete the configuration and create the links, use the cfgSs7Hw command.

To adjust the TCAP, SCCP, and MTP parameters for each stack (Classname), use the cfgTcap, cfgSccp, and the cfgMtp commands.

Make any necessary changes to the system parameters in the sys.* files.

If desired, scale your TCAP performance level using the cfgTcap command.

Configure the HP OpenCall SS7 LAN to the associated hostIpaddress using the cfgPlatform -add -ocLan command line. For further information, see the corresponding man page.

Run cfgPropagate -all to propagate the new platform configuration and the SS7 LAN configuration. Always propagate configurations from the same host (Platform Manager or Front End).

Run cfgCheck on the Platform Manager.

This ensures that all the necessary files are present and, on a 2-host system, checks that the configuration on both hosts is consistent.

Check and load the hardware configuration.

The command ss7HwInit checks that the configuration is valid, and if it is, loads it. When you run the command, if the configuration is valid, the following message appears,

Configuration successfully loaded in shared memory

and the system transfers the configuration data from the shared memory block to the appropriate hardware and software components, ensuring that the host and the TSU have the same configuration.

If the configuration is invalid, an error message appears describing what the problem is.

Check the links.

Once you have downloaded the configuration to the TSU, run one or both, of the following commands to check the status of the TSU and TSCs.