Alan,

A document I've seen describes a tool used by Lucent internally, a Perl
script that is capable of generating reporting information from logging
entries or directly from the system console. This snippet of information
comes from the documentation, and explains a little about gathering AT&V2
information from modems...

<snip>

.modemdiag

Modemdiag is a debug command, implemented on all the modem cards used with
the TNT, APX, and Max platforms. This command causes a modem, in the process
of hanging up from a call, to display some diagnostic information about that
call.
Modemdiag causes an extra command, AT&V2 to be sent to the modem after a
modem is disconnected from a call. Historically, this causes Conexant-based
modem chipsets (the MADD, while not Conexant-based, emulates AT&V2) to
output an encoded set of statistics, about the call just ended, that look
similar to the following:

BEGINaa25ab25ac25ba12bb12bc12ca77cb67cc202da4ea0eb0fa88fb88fc89ga10gb1ha41hb
35hc45hd0he43hf173hg0hh0hi0hj35hk40hl36hm42hn45ho39hp43hq42hr40hs39ia23ib23i
c23ja0jb0jc0jd0ka1kb1kc0kd1ke16kf16kg0kh0ki38kj0kk0kl30km33kn255la101lb103lc
101ld103ma0mb0m35na0nb0oa0ob0oc0pa1pb0qa12qb1ra34rb148rc129rd129re33rf151rg2
55sa255sb255END

These statistics include information such as minimum and maximum transmit
and receive speeds; the modem modulation negotiated; the modem's reason for
disconnection; and line quality over the last 10 seconds of the connection.

Radulator's interpretation of modemdiag is based on Conexant's supplied
documentation, version 42.

</snip>

Also of interest may be:

<snip>

GATHERING MODEMDIAG

NOTE: enabling modemdiag increases the time (up to 5 seconds) that
Conexant-based devices require to reset between calls. On busy systems,
where the access server is near capacity, this may mean that callers will
receive busy signals as the resetting modems will not yet be able to take
calls. The MADD is not subject to this delay.

Modemdiag is toggled on or off by typing modemdiag in debug mode. On the
TNT, a modem card's debug mode must be accessed from the console, with the
"open" command, first. On the Max, debug mode can be accessed from the LCD
with CTRL-D, D.
Typically, modemdiag can be captured by using the "start logging" option in
Windows telnet, after enabling modemdiag on the access server. On a Unix
system, you could pipe the output of telnet to "tee <filename>."  In either
case, the raw log is directly acceptable to Radulator. No pre-processing is
required.
By itself, modemdiag does not identify the remote users' username or caller
ID. Naturally, this makes it impossible to identify a given user. However,
modemdiag can be combined with the output of other debug toggle commands,
such as routmgr, and tntcall -t 3. Both these of these commands display the
users caller ID, if available (tntcall -t 3 requires DNIS or CLID
authentication to be enabled, in the access server's ANSWER configuration
profile).
MADDTELEM

Maddtelem, the MADD modem telemetry-gathering tool (available at
ftp://ftp.ascend.com/pub/Software-Releases/maddtelem/) has a feature to
gather routmgr and modemdiag together, automatically, along with MADD
telemetry (logged separately, which is not yet parsable by Radulator). Each
line is time and date stamped with the local time of the Unix host on which
Maddtelem was running.

This feature can be enabled by setting $dologdebug = 1 in maddtelem.conf.

</snip>

I'm currently investigating some modem compatibility issues myself... Hope
this information helps in some way. It would seem that Lucent would to well
to consider making this tool available to the users on this list, does
anyone know where it can be obtained. I may attempt to find out if I can
obtain a copy through the ISP team in the UK...

Regards,

- Matt

Matthew Watkins
Technical Consultant
Knowware UK Ltd
Mobile: 07968 755807
Home Office: +44 (0)1223 300917
Fax: +44 (0)1223 301280
Email: matt at knowware.co.uk
http://www.knowware.co.uk

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ascend-users at max.bungi.com
[mailto:owner-ascend-users at max.bungi.com]On Behalf Of Alan Martin
Sent: 14 November 2000 15:42
To: Troy Settle; ascend-users
Subject: Re: (ASCEND) test


Well, Troy.

I asked the group last week if anyone knew of any way to get more detailed
modem stats out of the MAX. No answer. Looking for mibs or ANY other way to
get stats such as :

SNR
Modulation
error correction

After an analog call terminates. Also do you or anyone know how to get &V2
stats from the modem after an analog call?

Thanks

Alan

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