Monitoring ISDN status in 2600 routers.

[janith]

Hi All

I have a situation where i have a mix of Cisco and Nortel routers.

They both have ISDN connectios as backup to support the ATM interfaces.

My issue is in the Nortel routers there is an option to do monitoring of the ISDN call status by issuing the following command

monitor isdn call status

then the screen automatically refreshes at a preconfigured interval showing the status of ISDN calls

In the Cisco boxes the available option is the

show ISDN active

Command, which the enduser has to keep recalling to check the status of ISDN calls.

My question is does Cisco IOS have a feature like the monitor command that can automatically monitor ISDN call and display them on the screen withou any user intervention.

Thaks

[paddyxdoyle]

Hi,

You can use debug commands on your Cisco router.

"debug isdn q931" will show you information about call set up and tear down

If you are telneting on to a router to view the debug, you need to enable logging to your VTY line

logging on

logging monitor debugging

terminal monitor

If you have a console connection to the router, you just need to make sure logging is on, and set the logging level to debugging for the console

logging on

logging console debugging.

If you want the router to buffer the logs

logging on

logging buffered 16384

logging buffered debugging

show logging

You may allready know this but you could also get the router to send its logs to a syslog server, i can supply further info if you require.

The following link goes into detail about debugging isdn q931.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk801/tk379/technologies_tech_note09186a0080093c1a.shtml

Rgds

Paddy