User-defined attributes for Circuit and Trail notifications in SONET/SDH lists the values that OTM populates into the first three user-defined attribute fields. These are populated only in HighOrder_Circuit and HighOrder_Trail notifications in the SONET/SDH domain.

Note:

CTP failures will populate UserDefined1 and UserDefined2 fields of HighOrder_Circuit notification.

Table 1. User-defined attributes for Circuit and Trail notifications in SONET/SDH

Notification Attribute

Description

UserDefined1

One of the following:

  • Service Provider Network – Internal Failure

  • a-End Customer Network – External Failure

  • z-End Customer Network – External Failure

    Note:

    Not used for HighOrder_Trails.

UserDefined2

Elements of the CTP alarm vector separated by a semicolon, each element consists of:

CTP Name | CTP Type | Notify Timestamp | Clear Timestamp | Notify/Clear |Alarm;

Example:

CTP-IOS_1/1-3-1-1/1/8|TP_INROUTE| 22-May-2007 12:00:00EDT |22-May-2007 13:00:00 EDT| Clear | RDI_P;