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Manual System Restart Sequence

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Purpose

To provide basic steps to shut down and power up an Acom system manually. This will
detail shutting down and powering up all Acom devices in the system.

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Required tools
Access to IMS Terminal

System shutdown
The system devices can be shutdown randomly but its best to do a sequential shut down
of devices to assure they have been powered down correctly. In an event of a power
outage or brown out, its recommended that a system shutdown and restart be performed
to assure that the system has been properly initialized and online without any errors or
alarms.
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Exit to Windows from all ACS consoles.

Shutdown all Acom Console Software (ACS) computers.
Turn off all ACUs in the system.
Turn off all ALSs in the system.
View IMS Terminal and verify that all devices accept ADSs are indicating No
Coms. If not, then some ACU and ALSs have not been shut down.
6. Turn off all ADSs in the system.
At this point, all Acom devices should be powered off.
7. View IMS Terminal and verify that all devices show No Coms.

The following is optional:

8. Turn off all 3rd party equipment connected to the Acom such as T1/E1 rate
convertors, IP tubes or loggers.
9. Turn off Power Supply main switch in each cabinet.

System Power Up Sequence

The power up procedure in this section is to be used on an Acom system that is known to
be configured and functional.
1. Power on main Power Supply in each cabinet.
2. Power up any 3rd party equipment that was turned off.
3. Power up all Main side DS3 Switches (ADS) one at a time, waiting until each
devices self test procedure has completed. These would normally be all ADSs
with the names of ADS-1M or an M in the name after the word ADS.
4. Wait two minutes after all main DS3 Switches have been powered on before
proceeding to next step.
5. If IMS Terminal/Net_Mgr is available, verify that all Main ADSs are now
reporting to the software.
6. Power up side A of the Acom system ALSs. These would normally be all ALSs
with the names of ALS-1M or an M in the name after the word ALS. These ALSs
are sometimes referred to as the Main ALSs. Also power up ALS racks that have
no letter designator as in ALS-2, ALS-1, ALS-4, etc
7. Wait one minute after all ALSs on the A side have been powered on before
proceeding to the next step.
8. If IMS Terminal/Net_Mgr is available, verify that all Main ALSs are now
reporting to the software.
9. The system should be active on the A side of the Acom Equipment. This can be
verified by looking at the Information Alarm LED on the ALSs. This is the Green
LED located on the MSU card right below the power switch next to the Yellow and
Red LEDs.
10. Power up all Acom Console Units(ACU) in the system one at a time while waiting
until an LCB is properly allocated for the position. This is indicated by the A tricolor LED turning Green. The B LED should be Red.
11. Wait at least one minute after the last Acom Console Unit in the system has been
powered on for all Acom Console Units to come online.
12. If IMS Terminal/Net_Mgr is available, verify that all Acom Console Units are now
reporting to the software.

13. Power up ACS PCs and start the Acom Console Software (ACS) at each position
and logon to a screen.
14. Power on the Stby Power Supply in each cabinet.
15. Power up all Stby side DS3 Switches (ADS) one at a time, waiting until each
devices self test procedure has completed. These would normally be all ADSs
with the names of ADS-1S or an S in the name after the word ADS.
16. Power up side B of the Acom system ALSs. These would normally be all ALSs
with the names of ALS-1S or an S in the name after the word ALS. These ALSs
are sometimes referred to as the Stby ALSs.
17. Verify at each ACU that the E1 Module shows 2 Green lights indicating an E1
source on both links.
18. Verify at each ACU that the Stby LCB is Yellow indicating a Stby LCB has been
allocated.
19. If IMS Terminal/Net_Mgr is available, verify that all Acom Devices are now
reporting to the software and no Red indications are present on any device.
20. The Acom system should now be up and ready for operation.