Terms

The switch-off-management is a pure evaluation tool which analyses which elements in ConnectMaster are affected by fault of

•Components

•Physical paths

•Usages

Affected?

Affected means, dependent on the source element, as follows:

Component

Affected by faults of a component are:

•All usages which lie on the component

•All signals which lie on the component

•All paths which run over the component.

Path

Affected by faults of a physical path are:

•All usages which run over the path

•All signals which run over the path

Usage

Affected by a fault of a usage are:

•All usages which run in the faulty usage.

Fault/Protected

All elements affected by a fault can be divided in fault and protected elements, whereas the following applies:

•Paths and signals are always faulty.

•A Usage can be protected under certain circumstances.

Protected usage

A usage is protected if, and only if it complies with one of the following conditions:

1.There is a protection path defined for the faulty position (Component/path/section).

2.A protection type has been assigned to the usage.

3.Special case concatenation object with protection type „LCAS“:

If some routing elements are affected by a fault, they're “LCAS faulty”.

The routing elements which are not affected by the fault are “LCAS protected”.

The concatenation object itself is then “LCAS faulty”.