Find Access Devices

Find Access Devices allows you to find an Access Device that matches a specified set of parameters.

To find an Access Device, specify one or more parameters that you want to match on, and choose Find. The lower half of the screen display changes to show all the objects that match the parameters you specified.

Find-Specific Actions
Find To find all the objects that match the parameters you have specified, click on this pushbutton.
Cancel To cancel a Find operation that is in progress, click on this pushbutton.
Reset To reset all the Find parameters back to their defaults so that you can start a new Find operation, click on this pushbutton.
Find more If there are more than 200 objects matching the parameters that you have specified, the EMS System Explorer initially shows only the first 200 objects. After you have finished with the first 200 objects, click on this pushbutton to display the next 200, and so on. When you reach the last group of objects in the list, the Find more pushbutton disappears.
View in object tree To switch to viewing the selected Access Device object in the main EMS object tree instead of in the Find display, click on this pushbutton.

Parameter

Description
MetaSwitch To find Access Devices on a specific MetaSwitch Network Element, mark this checkbox, and click on the ellipsis symbol at the end of the field to select the MetaSwitch name (as shown in the MetaSwitch Connection and MetaSwitch objects). Note that this Network Element must be running V2.1 or later. (On a back-level MetaSwitch Network Element, V2.0 or earlier, Access Devices are not used and so the search will return no results.) To find Access Devices on all Network Elements, leave the checkbox unmarked.
Gateway To find access devices on the local Media Gateway (in an Integrated Softswitch), on a Media Gateway managed by the local Call Agent, or on a specific Subscriber Gateway, mark this checkbox. To find all access devices regardless of which Media Gateway they are on, leave the checkbox unmarked. If you want to match on the Media Gateway, specify whether to match on a Media Gateway or on a Subscriber Gateway, as follows.
  • On Trunk / Access Gateway (default)
    For an Integrated Softswitch, this option is automatically set to MetaSwitch Local Media Gateway to identify the local Media Gateway. For a Media Gateway managed by the Call Agent, type the name of the gateway you want to match.
  • On Subscriber Gateway
    Type the name of the Subscriber Gateway you want to match.
The gateway name you specify can be the full name of the gateway, or the first few characters of the name followed by an asterisk (*) to match any name beginning with these characters. For example, GATE1* will match GATE1, GATE10 and GATE102 but not GATE21 or NEWGATE1.
Access Device This option is available only if you have marked the Gateway checkbox to find devices on a particular gateway. To find an Access Device with a specific name, mark this checkbox, and choose whether you want to match a specific name or a range of names. To find all Access Devices regardless of name, leave the checkbox unmarked. If you want to match on the name, specify it as follows.
  • Single Name (default)
    Type the Access Device name you want to match. This can be the full device name, or the first few characters of the name followed by an asterisk (*) to match any name beginning with these characters. For example, DEV1* will match DEV1, DEV10 and DEV102 but not DEV21 or NEWDEV12.
  • Range of Names
    Type the first and last names (in alphabetical order) in the range you want to match. As for a single name, each of these can be the full name, or the first few characters followed by an asterisk (*).