Port Soak
The Ether/POS Port Soak subtab allows you to view the soak information for Ethernet and packet-over-SDH (POS) ports on ML-Series cards. For a list of ONS nodes and cards that support this subtab, see Maintenance.
 
Port
Displays the card port number.
Soak Time
Displays the soak time. The duration of time that must pass with an uninterrupted signal before the traffic/termination transitions to the Up state.
Soak Left
The amount of time until the card is placed in service. If a circuit is provisioned and there are cabling problems, “Bad Signal” is displayed while the soak timer counts down to 0. The field is blank if the port has changed to the Up state.
Retrieve
Retrieves the tab field information.
Help
Displays context-sensitive help.

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