Each Signaling Destination object is a child of the Signaling Gateway object.
The Signaling Destination object contains information about a destination signaling point. There is a Signaling Destination object for each adjacent signaling point, and for each telephone exchange to which the MetaSwitch NE has a direct voice trunk. You should create a Signaling Destination object each time a new adjacent signaling point or a direct voice trunk to another telephone exchange is added.
If the switch provides Point Code Proxy functions for one or more legacy Class 5 switches, create a Signaling Destination object for each of these switches and set Point code is proxied to True.
If the switch may need to route SCCP / TCAP messages to or from point codes that are not otherwise explicitly configured, for example when handling Automatic Recall / Automatic Callback requests, you need to create a default Signaling Destination with the Point Code field set to 0-0-0. This Signaling Destination wll be used only for routing SCCP messages.
For initial configuration, set the following parameters:
Parameter |
Access |
Description |
Destination type | Create | Specifies the type of destination signaling point address. Values:
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Point code | Create | Point code of the destination signaling point. Specify this as three decimal numbers in the range 0 - 255, separated by hyphens (for example 123-45-67).
The first decimal number in the point code (the network ID) is normally in the range 1 - 5 for small networks, 6 for non-US networks, and 7 - 254 (assigned from the top downwards) for large networks. The network ID values 0 and 255 are reserved for special use.
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Destination name | Change | Unique user-friendly name identifying the destination signaling point. Specify a name of up to 30 characters. If a name is not specified, the EMS displays only the destination ID. |
Destination congestion level | Read only | Specifies whether the destination signaling point is currently congested. Range: 0 - 3. A value of zero indicates no congestion. |
Suppress Traffic Restart messages | Change | Specifies whether Traffic Restart Waiting and Traffic Restart Allowed messages should be suppressed and not sent to the destination signaling point. These are standard messages in the MTP3 protocol, and they should not normally be suppressed except when the destination signaling point does not support them. Values:
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Point code is proxied | Change | This field appears only if the parent Signaling Gateway is configured to allow proxied point codes. Specifies whether this destination represents a legacy Class 5 switch for which the MetaSwitch NE provides Point Code Proxy functions. Values:
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Alarm state | Read only | Specifies whether any alarms are currently raised for this object. Values:
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Alarm log correlator | Read only | Identifier of the log message for the event that caused the last Attend To Dependent alarm state for this object. This field is reset when the Attend To Dependent alarm events field is reset to zero. |
Attend To Dependent alarm events | Read only / Reset | Number of times (since the alarm count was reset) that this object's alarm state has gone to Attend To Dependent. You can reset this field to zero using the Reset button beside the field and apply this change using the Apply button. |
Alarm state changed timestamp | Read only | The time at which the Alarm state last changed. |
Alarm events reset timestamp | Read only | The time at which the alarm count was last reset to zero. |
Signaling Route Attention Required alarms | Read only | The total number of Signaling Routes associated with this Signaling Destination that are in Attention Required state. |
Signaling Route Attention Required alarm events | Read only / Reset | The total number of times that the alarm state for a Signaling Route child of this object has gone to Attention Required. |
Signaling Route Attend To Dependent alarms | Read only | The total number of Signaling Routes associated with this Signaling Destination that are in Attend To Dependent state. |
Signaling Route Attend To Dependent alarm events | Read only / Reset | The total number of times that the alarm state for a Signaling Route child of this object has gone to Attend To Dependent. |
Summary child alarm state | Read only | Summarizes the alarm status for all children of this object. Values:
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Diagnostics - log level | Change | Specifies the level of logs recorded for this object. Logs with a priority equal to or greater than the priority specified are recorded. Set to Default level to use the system-wide default level. Values:
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Diagnostics - API trace enabled | Change | Specifies whether API tracing is enabled for this object. Values:
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Diagnostics - trace tag | Change | An optional diagnostics tag inserted into API tracing and PD logging for this object. This tag may include any ASCII characters. |
Requested status | Read only | Specifies whether an administrator has attempted to enable the Signaling Destination. Values:
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Actual status | Read only | Specifies the current status of the Signaling Destination. Values:
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