Nortel CallPilot User Manual

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48 Chapter 5 Monitoring multimedia hardware—End—Channel and Multimedia MonitorsThe Channel Monitor shows the status of call channels. The call channelsare the connections between the server and the switch that carry the callsignals to CallPilot.The Multimedia Monitor shows the status of multimedia channels. Themultimedia channels are the DSP ports that process the calls. They are thevoice, fax, and speech-recognition channels.Disabling call channelsIf you must take the CallPilot system out of service to perform softwareor hardware maintenance, Nortel recommends that you disable all callchannels first. There are two ways to disable the call channels:• Courtesy stop the channels (preferred method).After you courtesy stop call channels, CallPilot waits until the channelsare no longer active before disabling them, instead of suddenlyterminating active calls.• Stop the channels.When you stop channels, you suddenly disable them and terminateall active calls.The Maintenance screenUse the Maintenance screen in CallPilot Manager to do the following:• Obtain general information about components.• View component states.• Start and stop components.• Run integrated diagnostic tests.• View the results of the last diagnostic test run against a component.What the Maintenance screen providesThe Maintenance screen identifies the server platform and switchconnectivity type. This screen also provides a tree, which when expanded,lists the physical and logical hardware components down the left side of thescreen. To list the server hardware components, click the plus sign (+) atthe top of the tree. To list the subcomponents for each component, click theplus sign (+) beside the component.Nortel CallPilot600r Server Maintenance and DiagnosticsNN44200-703 01.04 Standard5.0 25 April 2007Copyright © 2007, Nortel Networks.