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Chapter 4 Provisioning the TimeProvider
Starting the TimeProvider for the First Time
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 TimeProvider User’s Guide
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The TL1 command may generate an event message specific to the command. This 
event message accompanies the command description in this chapter.
Autonomous Messages
In addition to the TL1 response messages described in the above sections, the 
TimeProvider returns Autonomous Messages to report alarms, configuration 
changes, or condition changes. Frequently, an Autonomous Message is returned at 
approximately the same time as the TL1 response message that is associated with 
a command, because the command happens to change the unit’s state. 
Autonomous Messages are not directly correlated with commands, and therefore 
they do not contain a correlation tag (ctag).
The TimeProvider can generate an Autonomous Message at any time, whether to 
report that a user-initiated change has occurred, to report that an active alarm 
condition exists, or to report that an alarm has been cleared. The format of the 
Autonomous message is as follows; note that the text REPT identifies the response 
as a Autonomous Message.
<cr><lf><lf>
sid date time <cr><lf>
almcde atag REPT reptype aidtype<cr><lf>
aid,aditype:ntfcncde,condtype,srveff,ocrdat,ocrtim:condscr
”<cr><lf>
;
Refer to the TimeProvider TL1 Reference Guide for more information on 
Autonomous Messages.
Starting the TimeProvider for the First Time
The TimeProvider is delivered with a copy of SynCraft, Symmetricom’s network 
management application. Before you can use SynCraft or other network 
management software, you must provision the following parameters, as described 
in this section and in 
Source ID (sid)
Date and time
Ethernet parameters
Security-level user
, provides procedures and instructions to 
get started using the SynCraft application.