Board Switchover Feature Parameter

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Contents

Contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................1-1
1.1 Scope ............................................................................................................................................ 1-1
1.2 Intended Audience ........................................................................................................................ 1-1
1.3 Change History.............................................................................................................................. 1-1

2 Overview of Board Switchover .............................................................................................2-1

3 Working Principle of the Board Switchover ......................................................................3-1
4 Engineering Guidelines...........................................................................................................4-1
5 Parameters .................................................................................................................................5-1
6 Counters......................................................................................................................................6-1
7 Glossary ......................................................................................................................................7-1
8 Reference Documents .............................................................................................................8-1

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1 Introduction

1 Introduction
1.1 Scope
This document describes the Board Switchover feature of Huawei GSM BSS. It provides an overview of
the main functions and working principles regarding the Board Switchover feature.

1.2 Intended Audience

This document is intended for:
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Personnel who need to understand the board switchover feature.

Personnel who work with Huawei products

1.3 Change History

This section provides information on the changes in different document versions.
There are two types of changes, which are defined as follows:
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Feature change: refers to the change in the board switchove feature of a specific product version.

Editorial change: refers to the change in wording or the addition of the information that was not
described in the earlier version.

Document Issues
The document issues are as follows:
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01 (2010-01-20)
This is the initial issue.of GBSS9.0.

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2 Overview of Board Switchover

2 Overview of Board Switchover

Telecommunication system plays an important role in the national economy. In the telecommunication
system, the reliability and availability of the telecommunication equipment are of vital importance.
Huawei GBSS provides the 1+1 backup solution for all boards (except for the boards that are designed
to work in the resource pool mode). That is, the boards are configured in the active/standby mode, and a
switchover can be performed between the active and standby boards when the active board is faulty.
The active/standby mode for BSC boards improves the reliability of the GBSS system, prolongs the
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF), and prevents service disruption caused by a faulty board.
For the boards that work in the active/standby mode, the active board processes services, and the
standby board performs real-time backup for the active board. When the active board becomes faulty,
the system automatically performs a switchover. After the switchover, the standby board takes over the
role of the active board and processes services. Under this circumstance, the switchover between the
active and standby boards ensures the normal operation of the system.
There are two types of switchovers, namely, automatic switchover and manual switchover. An automatic
switchover is triggered by the system in the case that the active board is faulty. A manual switchover is
performed by the maintenance engineer on the LMT. The maintenance engineer sends an immediate
switchover command to the system, which then instructs the related boards through a dedicated
maintenance module to perform a switchover if the switchover is allowed.
To ensure a successful switchover, the following conditions must be met:
1. The standby board is present and works normally.
2. No major or critical alarm is reported.
After the standby board is switched over to the active state, the previously active board will be
automatically reset. If the previously active board restarts normally, it is switched over to the standby
state.
The BSC boards that support the board switchover feature include the SCUa, TNUa, GCUa, GCGa, and
all types of XPU boards and of interface boards. The DPU boards do not support the board switchover
feature, because the DPU boards are designed to work in the resource pool mode.
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3 Working Principle of the Board Switchover

3 Working Principle of the Board Switchover

When an automatic switchover is triggered or a manual switchover is performed, the active and standby
boards are switched over. Figure 3-1 shows the working principle of the board switchover.
Figure 3-1 Working principle of the board switchover

Other

Active

boards

board

Standby Note:
A: Logical circuit
board
B:

D
C

A
B

Backup channel

CD: Service channel before

the switchover
CE: Service channel after
the switchover

There is a logical circuit between an active board and a standby board. Through the logical circuit, one
can query whether a board serves as the active board or the standby board and whether the
corresponding standby board or the corresponding active board is present. In addition, the logical circuit
can be used to perform a switchover. Under normal conditions, there is a service channel between the
active board and other boards. The service channel carries all services processed by the active board.
The active and the standby boards are connected through a backup channel. Through the backup
channel, the standby board synchronizes itself with the active board. In this manner, the standby board
can always obtain the latest data and maintain the consistency with the active board. When an automatic
switchover is triggered or a manual switchover is performed, the active and standby boards are switched
over. In such a case, the previously standby board takes over the role of the active board, and the
previously active board is reset. After taking over the role of the active board, the previously standby
board starts data configuration according to the backup data. The data configuration includes the
configuration of chips, transmission channels, operating system, and upper-level software. The
switchover does not affect the other boards that are connected to the previously active board. There is
also an operation&maintenance channel between the active and standby boards. This channel is not
depicted in the preceding figure.

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4 Engineering Guidelines

4 Engineering Guidelines
The GCUa board must be installed in the Main Processing Subrack (MPS). The SCUa or the SCUb
boards in a subrack are automatically configured in the active/standby mode (to add a subrack, use the
ADD SUBRACK command). The TNUa boards are configured in the active/standby mode by default
whenever the TNUa boards are added. One is also advised to configure the INT boards, that is, interface
boards, in the active/standby boards. When interface boards are added, one is advised to set the
Backup parameter to YES(YES) and set the Slot No. parameter to the even slot number for the
interface board. In this way, two interface boards, one active and the other standby, are added at one
time.

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5 Parameters

5 Parameters
This chapter describes the parameters related to the Board Switchover feature.
For the description of each parameter, see Table 5-1. For the default value, value ranges, and MML
commands for each parameter, see Table 5-2 .
Table 5-1 Parameter description (1)
Parameter

Description

Backup

Whether to back up the data of the board

Slot No.

Number of the slot

Table 5-2 Parameter description (2)

Parameter

Default
Value

GUI Value
Range

Actual
Value
Range

Unit

MML Command

Impact

Backup

None

YES(YES),
NO(NO)

YES, NO

None

ADD BRD

Board

Slot No.

None

0~27

0~27

None

SWP BRD

None

STR BKP
CMP BRDAREA
ULD RSTINFO
SET CLK
SET XPUPORT
ADD XPUVLAN
SET MPUBIND
SET DPUBRDTYPE
SET TCTYPE
ADD BRD
LOD BRD
SYN BRDAREA
CMP TBLDATA
SET MSPCMD
SET MSP
SET BFDPROTOSW
STR FRPORTLOOP
ADD BC
ADD NSVC
ADD NSVLLOCAL
SET PSCELLTODSP
ADD BTSAUTOPLAN

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6 Counters

6 Counters
None.
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7 Glossary

7 Glossary
For the acronyms, abbreviations, terms, and definitions, see the Glossary.

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8 Reference Documents

8 Reference Documents
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BSC6900 Feature List

BSC6900 Basic Feature Description

BSC6900 GSM Parameter Reference

BSC6900 GSM MML Command Reference

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