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Overview
Effective preventive maintenance routines are essential to ensure the ongoing optimal
performance of your sector controllers and outdoor equipment following initial installation
and deployment. Effective remedial maintenance routines are also essential to ensure that
when a fault does occur, the base station is up and running as soon as possible in order
to minimize customer disruption and degradation of QoS.
The information and procedures in this manual are intended as a guideline. You will need
to define a maintenance plan that addresses the unique concerns of your specific network
installation.
Maintenance Schedule
You will need to monitor your equipment and make your decision about how frequently you
need to perform various maintenance tasks based on the number of components,
environmental conditions and the location of the your outdoor equipment.
The following table provides general guidelines for system maintenance. You will need to
modify this schedule based on your particular network installation and configuration.
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RedMAX Maintenance Schedule
Daily Maintenance
Description/Required Tasks
Check Alarm Indicators
• Review the alarm indicators as outlined in the User's
manual.
• Log all results and perform any corrective action.
Archive syslog messages
• Store syslog files to your network archive or backup sector
controller log files if you are not using a syslog server.
Weekly Maintenance
Run the syslog analysis scripts.
• Check for GPS, synchronization and IF issues,
characterize rates of de-registrations
Monthly Maintenance
Visually inspect all connections
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