3.5. Starting an Intel® NetStructure™ SS7 Board System

The Intel® Dialogic system service downloads the required firmware to Intel® Dialogic boards, starts all Intel® Dialogic device drivers, and assigns CT Bus time slots.

Starting the system involves two steps:

1. Start the DataKinetics environment. This involves starting the GCTLOAD program, which sets up the IPC (Inter Process Communication) and messaging system.
   
   The GCTLOAD program also launches S7_MGT that reads the config.txt, downloads the specified firmware to the board and configures the stack as specified in the config.txt file.

   
   Note: The SS7 links must be activated using the MTPSL command. For example, to activate the first link of the linkset with ID 0, issue the following command: MTPSL ACT 0 0. If the Auto Links Activation parameter (see Section Section 3.4.2, Using DCM for General Intel® NetStructure™ SS7 Board Configuration) is set to All, the SS7 server will perform the activation of all links during its startup.
   

2. Start the Intel® Dialogic system service. The Intel® Dialogic system service can be started from the Intel® Dialogic Configuration Manager (DCM) and it automatically performs all initialization steps required by the Global Call SS7 system (excluding the preceding step 1).

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