Agilent Technologies auroraSonata, User Manual

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First Steps in Testing - Section 2
Note
You cannot change channels while in the
Setup
menus.
aurora
Sonata
shows the currently selected channel (e.g.
B01
) at
the right hand side of the status bar at the top of the screen.
Switching through the channels one by one
You can change channels without having to go into the
channel selection screen. To do this:
-1-
Press + to switch through the
channels one by one. The Status bar display
changes to show which channel is currently
selected (
B01
,
B02
, etc.).
Changing channels using the selection screen
When you want to see the channel activity display, or when
you prefer not to switch through the channels one by one (e.g.
on a PRI link), you can display a graphical representation of
the channels.
-1-
Press the key to display a screen with a
series of boxes representing the channels.
The boxes represent the B channels (2 for Basic Rate and 30
for Primary Rate, plus
Bx
(any B channel) and the D channel.
At the right hand side of the status bar at the top of the
screen, aurora
Sonata
shows the currently selected channel - B1 in
the BRI example above.
Each channel box contains one of a range of symbols
representing activity on the channel. See
Displaying current
call activity on the channels later in this section.