Cisco Headend System Release 2.5 User Guide

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DHCT Status Reporting Utility 

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Two-way communication between DHCTs and the headend is vital if subscribers are 

to take full advantage of the interactive features of Cisco’s DBDS. The DHCT Status 

Reporting Utility is designed to test and analyze two-way communications between 

the DHCT and the headend. 
The information in this chapter tells you how to access the user interface of the 

DHCT Status Reporting Utility and how to interpret the data it displays. Subsequent 

chapters in this guide provide instructions for running the various features included 

as part of the DHCT Status Reporting Utility. 

This section contains the following topics.