Huawei NE40E System Test Procedure

Huawei enterprise router BRAS ME60, core router NE40E and NE8000 are very popular in domestic and overseas market. Especially in China, many distributors swarm into this field. Most of them have no websites and test labs, they source routers in the market, or just swap out some router cards from scrapped chassis, and then sell them to overseas customers directly without any test.

Due to no test lab and professional technical team, the customers always received an item with problems, such as board unregistered, daughter-card missing etc. Thunder-link has a complete test system, and every item will be tested by the engineers comprehensively before delivering to customers. This article will introduce the test procedures of NE40E series router.

Here taking a Huawei NE40E as an example.

1. Connect a PC and the CONSOLE port on MPU via a console cable

2. Insert mother and daughter board, LPUF-102and P101-E

3. Observe the indicator lights status of these board, lights turn from red to green and glint once every second

4, Login NE40E-X3, password huawei@123or Admin@123

5, Check status of main control boards, switching boards and mother boards.

Case 1

NE40E-X3's Device status:

Slot #   Type    Online     Register     Status     Role   LsId   Primary

2        LPU     Present    Registered   Normal     LC     0      NA

4        MPU     Present    Registered   Normal     MMB    0      Master

5        MPU     Present    Registered   Normal     MMB    0      Slave

6        CLK     Present    Registered   Normal     OTHER  0      Master

7        CLK     Present    Registered   Normal     OTHER  0      Slave

8        PWR     Present    Registered   Normal     OTHER  0      NA

9        PWR     Present    Registered   Normal     OTHER  0      NA

10       FAN     Present    Registered   Normal     OTHER  0      NA

“Registered” and “Normal” indicate that boards are added successfully.

Case 2

NE40E-X3's Device status:

Slot #   Type    Online     Register     Status     Role   LsId   Primary

2        LPU     Present    Registered   Normal     LC     0      NA

3        LPU     Present    Registered   Normal     LC     0      NA

4        MPU     Present   Unregistered  Abnormal  MMB    0      Slave

5        MPU     Present    Registered   Normal     MMB    0      Master

6        CLK     Present    Registered   Normal     OTHER  0      Slave

7        CLK     Present    Registered   Normal     OTHER  0      Master

8        PWR     Present    Registered   Normal     OTHER  0      NA

9        PWR     Present    Registered   Normal     OTHER  0      NA

10       FAN     Present    Registered   Normal     OTHER  0      NA

“Unregistered” and “Abnormal” indicate that boards are added not successfully.

6. Check NE40E-X3 software version

<HUAWEI>display version

Huawei Versatile Routing Platform Software

VRP (R) software, Version 8.190 (NE40E V800R011C10SPC100)

Why we should record NE40-E current software version?

Each service board have corresponding system software, (LPUF-120) E for example (below table), it has mapping version; If the user needs more service cards for expansion in future, before purchasing, we will check the current software of the device with customers, to guarantee boards can work with NE40E normally.

7. Check version information of all boards

  NE40E-X3 version information:

BKP version information:

PCB Version : CR52BKPE REV C

MPU  Slot  Quantity : 2

LPU  Slot  Quantity : 3

MPU version information:

MPU (Master) 4 : uptime is 0 day, 0 hour, 25 minutes

StartupTime 2020/07/02   09:21:52

SDRAM Memory Size   : 2048 M bytes

FLASH Memory Size   : 16 M bytes

NVRAM Memory Size   : 512 K bytes

CFCARD Memory Size  : 1911 M bytes

MPU CR5D0MPUD170 version information:

PCB         Version : CR57MPUH REV A

EPLD        Version : 102

FPGA        Version : 004

BootROM     Version : 03.47

BootLoad    Version : 03.47

MonitorBUS version information:

Software    Version : 8.134

MPU (Slave) 5 : uptime is 0 day, 0 hour, 25 minutes

StartupTime 2020/07/02   09:22:11

SDRAM Memory Size   : 2048 M bytes

FLASH Memory Size   : 16 M bytes

NVRAM Memory Size   : 512 K bytes

CFCARD Memory Size  : 1911 M bytes

MPU CR5D0MPUD170 version information:

PCB         Version : CR57MPUH REV A

EPLD        Version : 102

FPGA        Version : 004

BootROM     Version : 03.47

BootLoad    Version : 03.47

MonitorBUS version information:

Software    Version : 8.134

LPU/SPU version information:

LPU 2 : uptime is 0 day, 0 hour, 12 minutes

StartupTime 2020/07/02   09:35:07

Host processor :

SDRAM Memory Size   : 4096 M bytes

Flash Memory Size   : 128 M bytes

LPU CR5DLPUFA27E version information:

PCB Version         : CR57LPUF120A REV A

EPLD Version        : 101

FPGA Version        : 101

NP Version          : 100

TM Version          : 110

BootROM Version     : 06.14

BootLoad Version    : 06.14

NSE version information:

PCB Version         : NSE REV A

PIC0:CR5D0L5XFE71 version information

StartupTime         : 2020/07/02    09:35:41

PCB Version         : CR57L5XFE REV B

FPGA Version        : 008

PIC1:CR5D0EFGFE70 version information

StartupTime         : 2020/07/02    09:46:15

PCB Version         : CR57EFGFE REV A

FPGA Version        : 016

MonitorBUS version information:

Software Version : 10.234

CLK version information:

CLK 6 : uptime is 0 day, 0 hour, 24 minutes

StartupTime 2020/07/02   09:22:32

FPGA     Version : 004

DSP      Version : 10205013

CLK 7 : uptime is 0 day, 0 hour, 25 minutes

StartupTime 2020/07/02   09:22:26

FPGA     Version : 004

DSP      Version : 10205013

FAN version information:

FAN 10 MonitorBUS version information:

PCB Version : CR52FCBD REV B

Software Version : 1.10

8. Check service board LPUF-102and P101-E detailed info

  LPU CR5DLPUFA27E 2's detail information:

Description: Flexible Card Line Processing Unit(LPUF-102) E

Board status:Normal

Register:Registered

Uptime:2020/07/02   09:35:07

CPU Utilization(%): 17%

Mem Usage(%):15%

Current syn-clock: 4

Current line-clock: 6

Syn-clock state:Locked VCXO_OK REF_OK

Syn-clock 4 state: Actived

Syn-clock 5 state: Actived

Line-clock 6 state: Actived

Line-clock 7 state: Actived

Statistic information:

Statistic item                          Statistic number

SERDES interface link lost:  0

MPU switchs:0

Syn-clock switches: 0

Line-clock switches: 0

PIC0: CR5D0L5XFE71 information:

Description:5-Port 10GBase LAN/WAN-SFP+ Flexible Card E(P101-E)

Uptime: 2020/07/02    09:35:41

Card type: ETHERNET

Port number: 5

Converge info: non-converge

PIC1: CR5D0EFGFE70 information:

Description:24-Port 1000Base-X-SFP Flexible Card E(P51-E)

Uptime: 2020/07/02    09:46:15

Card type: ETHERNET

Port number: 24

Converge info: non-converge

9. Check Chassis and board manufactured time and barcode

[Board Properties]

BoardType=CR5Z1BKPE

BarCode=2102351596P0D1000074

Item=02351596

Description=NetEngine40E-X3,CR5Z1BKPE,Integrated DC Chassis Components(NE40E-X3)-4U

Manufactured=2018-01-14

VendorName=Huawei

IssueNumber=00

CLEICode=

BOM=

[Board Properties]

BoardType=CR57LPUF102A01

BarCode=210305468810G7000094

Item=03054688

Description=NetEngine40E,CR57LPUF102A01,Flexible Card Line Processing Unit(LPUF-102) E

Manufactured=2017-07-05

VendorName=Huawei

IssueNumber=00

CLEICode=

BOM=

[Main_Board_1]

[Board Properties]

BoardType=CR57LPUF102A01

BarCode=210305468810G7000094

Item=03054688

Description=NetEngine40E,CR57LPUF102A01,Flexible Card Line Processing Unit(LPUF-102) E

Manufactured=2017-07-05

VendorName=Huawei

IssueNumber=00

CLEICode=

BOM=

Huawei NetEngine40E (NE40E) high-end universal service routers are designed to serve as core nodes on enterprise WANs, access nodes on large-scale enterprise networks, interconnection and aggregation nodes on campus networks, and edge nodes on large-scale IDC networks. any failure or malfunction of hardware will cause even more loss.

By view of this, test of board consistence and system compatibility is indispensable. To guarantee customers’ benefits, Thunder-link will do a comprehensive test for Huawei router system as above procedures, which realizes plug-and-play in a real sense.