Useful procedures:
2) Configuration steps:
Configure initial parameters (Configuration/System Config/Config)
Configure Controller Shelf (Configuration/Shelf Config/Go) Just check CLEI if correct
Configure Expansion Shelf (Configuration/Shelf Config) Can add sub shelf to the node
Configure/Verify Timing (L1 Provisioning/Timing Synchronization) Not on initial provisioning
Configure for NCS Management (Configuration/Protocol Config/SNMP Config)
Specify Node ID (Configuration/Shelf Config/Go)
Configure F10T cards to be a Transponder or Regenerator (Ciena/Shelf-X/Go@ the F10T line)
Create Degree and add Modules to Degrees(L1 Provisioning/Degrees)
Provision DWR Ports (Ciena/Shelf/DWR) Set tributaries to OCH or OCG (Optical Channel/Group)
Provision Port Associations (L1 Provisioning/Port Associations) only for photonics all trib ports enabled!
Set DWR and VMUX OCH Trib Threshold (Ciena/shelf#/IFM-1-5B (DWR)/InfProvGo/Port Params )
Create Optical Cross connects (for DWR, not for VMUX) (L1 Provisioning/Optical Cross Connect)
Create DWR trib Port Associations
Place Network ports in service (IS-NR) and Delete all ports not used.
Turn on Automatic Chanel Power Control
Check alarms.
Configure Output Power for each network port