Startup procedure
Startup involves execution of specific commands or scripts to start the Aculab driver and signalling module.
(1) To start aculab driver, Login as root or aculab user and execute below commands
• cd /opt/aculab
• source setV6.sh
• ./ ACU_SS7Service start
Above will start the aculab module and load necessary drivers.
(2) Post driver start-up , initiate server/client process passing the ss7.cfg as below
• ./ ACU_SS7Start ss7.cfg
Post execution of above steps required Aculab modules gets started and status of SIGTRAN association may be verified.
Shutdown procedure
To stop the running modules, below commands are used
• cd /opt/aculab
• source setV6.sh
• ./ ACU_SS7Service stop
Some useful commands and sample output
Starting Aculab Services
# ./ACU_SS7Service start
Starting Aculab SS7 services
ss7maint: daemon started: pid 7861
Starting Aculab driver : success
****ACULAB Driver licence parameter****
Licence manager version: 4.2.0.8
fnum fname licences used units first_expiry
0 SS7 1 1 10 days
1 M3UA 1 100 msg/s 10 days
Creating nodes for DACP control : success
Starting Aculab Resource Manager: acuresmgr
Starting Aculab Resource Manager: success
# ./ACU_SS7Start ss7.cfg
Starting Aculab ss7
Starting Aculab ss7 success
Stopping Aculab services
# ./ACU_SS7Service stop
Shutting down Aculab Resource Manager: acuresmgr
Stopping Aculab SS7 services
Stopping Aculab SS7 services : success
Shutting down Aculab DACP services: dacpcl
Check the SIGTRAN connection status :
# /opt/aculab/bin64/ss7maint ipstatus
type user state host address
SCTP M3UA 17 connected - 10.0.20.30 :6020<-10.0.20.35:6020
Command to check the licence
# /opt/aculab/bin64/ss7maint licence
Licence manager version: 4.2.0.8
fnum fname licences used units first_expiry
0 SS7 1 1 10 days
1 M3UA 1 100 msg/s 10 days
Command to check the GT routing status
# /opt/aculab/bin64/ss7maint sccpstatus -g
opc global title translations
17 table selector: gti=0x4, tt=0, nai=4, np=1, es=bcd
rule selector: 919000012345
type: route on gt
translated: gti=0x4, tt=0, nai=4, np=1, es=bcd
format digits: *
destination= 1190
transmits 0, routing fails 0
rule selector: default
type: route on gt
translated: gti=0x4, tt=0, nai=4, np=1, es=bcd
format digits: *
destination= 17
transmits 0, routing fails 0
Command to view online traces
# /opt/aculab/bin64/ss7maint trace -c