Many People are asking me for the Service effecting Alarms in the Ericsson 3G GSM networks using RNC

and NODE_Bs Unlike 2G GSM network the alarms are to be analyzed carefully to decide the impact on services. Some time the site could be up and running but the services are actually affected due to some reasons. The table bellow may help to give an Idea of the alarms that may course impact on service in the 3G GSM Network where Ericsson RNC and NODE_Bs are used.

UtranCell_Traffic Affecting Alarm Specific problem Problem text A Radio NW Service Impact/UtranCell out of service A Radio NW Service Impact/UtranCell out of service A Radio NW Service Impact/UtranCell out of service A Radio NW Service Impact/UtranCell out of service Affected managed element

Pch_InternalResourceUnavailable

RNC disables the PCH

R fo re

Rach_InternalResourceUnavailable

RNC disables the RACH

R fo re

3 4

Fach_InternalResourceUnavailable UtranCell_InternalResourceUnavailable

RNC disables the FACH RNC disables the UtranCell RNC issues this alarm when a cell senses that a service is unavailable due to a failure of resource on which it depends NodeB cannot fulfill the request from the RNC over the NBAP protocol

R fo re R fo

UtranCellServiceUnavailable

A Radio NW Service Impact/UtranCell out of service

a. b. ha

UtranCell_NbapMessageFailure

A Radio NW Service Impact/UtranCell out of service

a. no N U

Pch_NbapMessageFailure

A Radio NW Service Impact/UtranCell out of service

NodeB cannot fulfill the request from the RNC over the NBAP protocol

a. co re re lo

Fach_NbapMessageFailure

A Radio NW Service Impact/UtranCell out of service

NodeB cannot fulfill the request from the RNC over the NBAP protocol

a. co re re lo

Rach_NbapMessageFailure

A Radio NW Service Impact/UtranCell out of service

NodeB cannot fulfill the request from the RNC over the NBAP protocol

a. co re re lo

10

NbapDedicated_RncRbsControlLinkDown

A Radio NW Service Impact/UtranCell out of service A Radio NW Service Impact/UtranCell out of service if two or more links are down

TRANSMISSION

a. lin lin N

11

IMA Group Insufficient Links at Far End

TRANSMISSION

Tw th