Signaling Destination

Each Signaling Destination object is a child of the Signaling Gateway object.

The Signaling Destination object contains information about a destination signaling point.

For initial configuration, set the following parameters:


Parameter

Access

Description
Internal Signaling Gateway Create Specifies whether this destination represents another Signaling Gateway on the same NE. Values:
  • True
    This is an internal destination, representing a connection to another Signaling Gateway on the same NE.
  • False (default)
    This destination represents a connection to an external signaling point.
Destination type Create / Read only
  • This field is visible only if the parent Signaling Gateway's MTP3 variant is ANSI 1996. Leave this field with its default value.
Point code Create This field appears only if Internal Signaling Gateway is False. Point code of the destination signaling point. Specify this as a decimal number. If Point code is proxied is set to True, choose a point code that is not in use elsewhere in the network (according to the local assignment policy).
Signaling Gateway Change This field appears only if Internal Signaling Gateway is True. The other Signaling Gateway on the NE to which this destination represents a connection. Select from the drop-down list of Signaling Gateways.
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 This field appears only if Internal Signaling Gateway is False. 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:
  • True
    Suppress TRW and TRA messages.
  • False (default)
    Send these messages as normal.
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:
  • True
    The point code is proxied and is not visible to the rest of the signaling network.
  • False (default)
    The point code is not proxied and is visible to the rest of the SS7 network as normal.
Caller name proxy Change This field appears only if Point code is proxied is True. This field is typically used only in Canada. Specifies whether the MetaSwitch NE proxies caller name information for calls to and from this Signaling Destination. Values:
  • True
    The NE adds a calling name parameter to the IAMs for calls from this destination, and adds calling name data from calls to this destination to the MetaSwitch Calling Name Delivery cache.
  • False (default)
Caller name parameter Change This field appears only if Point code is proxied is True. This field is typically used only in Canada. Specifies which type of Calling Name Delivery data to proxy for this Signaling Destination. Values:
  • Generic Name Parameter
  • Party Information Parameter (default)
Alarm state Read only Specifies whether any alarms are currently raised for this object. Values:
  • Clear
    No alarms are currently raised.
  • Attention Required
    Attention Required - the object is not operating normally, and needs operator intervention.
  • Attend To Dependent
    Attention Required elsewhere - another object on which this object depends is not operating normally.
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:
  • Clear
    No alarms are currently raised.
  • Attention Required
    Attention Required - one or more child objects are not operating normally, and need operator intervention.
  • Attend To Dependent
    Attention Required elsewhere - another object on which one or more child objects depend is not operating normally.
Diagnostics - logging - 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:
  • Level 10 (diagnostics)
  • Level 20 (verbose statistics)
  • Level 30 (verbose operational)
  • Level 40 (statistics)
  • Level 50 (audit)
  • Level 60 (operational)
  • Level 70 (unexpected)
  • Level 80 (error)
  • Level 90 (fatal)
  • Default level (default)
Diagnostics - API trace - enabled Change Specifies whether API tracing is enabled for this object. Values:
  • True
  • False (default)
Diagnostics - API trace - trace tag Change An optional text string inserted into API tracing and PD logging for this object. (This string can include accented / international characters as defined in ISO 8859-1.) If you want to filter on this tag in the craft interface, do not include spaces or any of the characters ^ \ $ * + ? | ( ) , . ' ' " [ ] { }.
Requested status Read only Specifies whether an administrator has attempted to enable the Signaling Destination. Values:
  • Enabled
    The object has been enabled.
  • Disabled
    The object has not been enabled or has been disabled.
Actual status Read only Specifies the current status of the Signaling Destination. Values:
  • Enabled
    The object is enabled.
  • Disabled
    The object has not been enabled or has been disabled.