PDT Commands

What PDT cxommands do you need to use for the normal running of the switch?

hi rick you can also type: "help" on the pdt and it gives you all the available commands, then choose the relevent and check help for it.

hope it help you yossi

Actually, help does not "gives you all the available commands". In fact, in the piece of the manual below, none of the commands that have been replaced with will show up if you type help. There are far more tools available to us than what is listed by typing help. PDT is there for those that have the necessary knowledge and training, and the most common use of it by end users is simply for the installation of patches, which in itself requires training in order to access them legitimately. If the O.P. is in PDT on a regular basis, then either there's something wrong with the switch, or he's playing - especially if he needs help remembering the command of the day. We've got pretty close to 100 switches, and I've never had to go into PDT on most of them. Even when we upgraded them, I modified the software delivery card so we didn't need to manually load the deplists.

In case you are not aware, simply mistyping certain letters can crash the switch.

To answer the original question.... Here's some of a couple of pages from the manual:

3 PDT Operation

3.1 PDT Start-up

All PDT related tasks (except PDT Shell tasks) are created at the system start time.

After proper initialization, PDT broadcasts the following message to both CP serial

ports:

PDT Ready!

and is ready to operate. After that message, it is possible to start a PDT shell and to

execute PDT commands.

PDT can be invoked by typing , or, for a remote user, by means of the

command.

can also be used to restart the existing PDT shell.

Note. In earlier versions of release 18, is to be used instead of

.

3.2 PDT Shell

The user interacts with PDT by means of a PDT shell. A PDT shell is created when

or is entered. There can be several PDT shell tasks in the system

at the same time depending on how many users interact with PDT simultaneously

(one shell per user).

PDT shell is an interactive command interpreter. Although PDT has its own set of

commands, it also allows the user to invoke any operating system subroutine. A PDT shell

also provides the following mechanisms:

.. standard input and output redirection;

.. script execution;

.. history facility.

3.3 Security levels

PDT security is provided by means of two mechanisms: access restriction

(passwords) and access levels (security levels).

A password is required whenever a new PDT shell is created (as a result of a

or command).

An access level is established separately for each PDT shell. A proper access level

is selected automatically depending on the password provided by the user when

PDT shell is created.

There are two security levels in PDT: technical assistance level and system support

level.

On the technical assistance level, the restricted set of PDT commands is available.

4.4 Monitoring SL1 Activity

facilities allow to collect and print SL1 work-load data. Data collection is

performed periodically with a user-defined frequency. Each periodical data snap

(sample) includes the following SL1 data:

.. current and average number of interrupts for each group;

.. current and average value of call processing Work Counts;

.. current and average number of entries in call processing queues.

In addition to SL1 data, each sample includes:

.. side where data has been collected;

.. sample number and time stamp.

Two commands control SL1 monitoring: starts data collection and printing,

and terminates the process. Two other commands provide collecting

data report facilities: allows to print data samples that have already

been collected and sets the mode to print upcoming data samples.

allows to suspend printing of data started by or .

The following examples illustrate how commands are used. The session

scenario is:

1. Activate with a 30 second period by means of command and

stop printing after two samples by means of .

1. Resume printing by means of and stop it after three samples by

means of .

1. Print last two samples by means of .

1. Stop by means of .

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