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Chapter 3 Generating Reports
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Before You Begin
Before you read about each type of report and its description, you need to
understand that some of the reports refer to the DHCT (set-top) administrative
status.
Each DHCT stored in the DNCS/ISDS database has an associated administrative
Each DHCT stored in the DNCS/ISDS database has an associated administrative
status, assigned through the Business Operations Support System (BOSS)
Application Programming Interface (API). The administrative status can be set by
the billing systems or through the DNCS/ISDS Administrative Console.
The four DHCT administrative statuses as follows:
The four DHCT administrative statuses as follows:
Out of Service
Deployed
In Service-One Way
In Service-Two Way
Notes:
A DHCT whose upstream plant is not two-way mode capable will not function
in two-way mode, even though its administrative status has been set to In
Service-Two Way.
A DHCT in an RF+IP 55-1 environment will not have an IP address record stored
on the ISDS. The DHCT IP address will be displayed as not assigned in the
applicable reports.
Report Types
Reports are categorized into three types:
DNCS/ISDS Database Reports (on page 16) collect data only from the
DNCS/ISDS database.
SNMP Poll Reports (on page 20) poll DHCTs (set-tops) for information using
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol).
Note: SNMP Poll Reports are not applicable to i4.2 environments. This link is
Note: SNMP Poll Reports are not applicable to i4.2 environments. This link is
disabled or suppressed in the i4.2 implementation.
DNCS/ISDS System Reports (on page 23) collect system information from the
DNCS/ISDS server.
If you do not see data that you expect in a particular report, refer to the description
for that report. It is possible that some filtering has been applied by the report that
caused the expected data to be excluded.