General

Use the General subtab to provision identification information for the node, including the node name, a contact name and phone number, the location of the node, and the date, time, and time zone.

Item

Description

General

  • Node Name/TID: The node name/target ID. For TL1 compliance, the name should have no more than 20 alphanumeric characters.

  • Contact: Name of the node contact person and the phone number, up to 255 characters.

Location

  • Latitude: The node latitude: N (North) or S (South), degrees, and minutes.

  • Longitude: The node longitude: E (East) or W (West), degrees, and minutes. Cisco Transport Controller (CTC) uses the latitude and longitude to position ONS node icons on the network view map.

  • Description: Description of the node. The description can be a maximum of 255 characters.

Time

  • Use NTP/SNTP: When checked, CTC uses a Network Time Protocol (NTP) or Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) server to set the date and time of the node. If not checked, the ONS node uses the Date and Time field entries for alarm dates and times. (CTC shows all alarms in the login node's time zone for cross-network consistency.)

  • Server: If Use NTP/SNTP Server is checked, the IP address an NTP/SNTP server or another ONS node that has NTP/SNTP Server enabled is entered. If another ONS node is referenced, the second ONS node must reference an NTP/SNTP server and not the first ONS node.

  • Date (M/D/Y): If Use NTP/SNTP Server is not checked, enter the current date in the format m/d/y, for example, 11/28/2006.

  • Time (H:M:S): If Use NTP/SNTP Server is not checked, the node uses the time entered here in the format h:m:s, for example, 11:24:58. The ONS node uses a 24-hour clock, so 10:00 PM is entered as 22:00:00.

  • Time Zone: Sets the node time zone. The drop-down list shows the 80 World Time Zones from GMT-11 through GMT +14. Continental United States time zones are GMT-05:00 (Eastern), GMT-06:00 (Central), GMT-07:00 (Mountain), and GMT-08:00 (Pacific).

  • Use Daylight Savings Time: If checked, indicates that the time zone chosen in Time Zone is using Daylight Savings Time.

System Description

Displays the platform name and software version.

Apply

Applies changes made to the General fields.

Reset

Cancels any General field changes and returns the fields to their last-saved settings.

Help

Displays context-sensitive help.