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This section provides solutions to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the

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Can I change my SFPs from copper to fibre?

"I'm moving my SBC 5k from one building to another and need to change my SFPs from copper to fibre. Can I just swap them with the Ribbon-provided SFPs before I power on the SBC, or is there more involved?"

You can swap the SFPs as long as you make sure to use the Ribbon-provided SFPs. Do not use a mix fiber and copper SFPs (all PKT ports have to be the same and all HA ports have to be the same).

How do I transfer files from one unit to the other?

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Beginning with release 3.1, file transfers must be performed using SFTP on port 2024. Use the following steps as a guide (default login/password is sftpadmin/sftpadminyou can use any CLI account in the Administrator group):

1. From the source SBC, login to Linux shell using sftpadminadmin/sftpadmin admin and change directory to where the file is located.
   
   

2. Connect to target SBC. In this example, SBXa is the source and SBXb is the target SBC.

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   sftpadmin@SBXa$admin@SBXa$ sftp -oPort=2024 sftpadmin@SBXbadmin@SBXb Connecting to SBXb sftpadmin@SBXbadmin@SBXb's password: sftpadmin<password> Connected to SBXb

3. Use the put command to transfer a file to the specified directory as shown in the example below.

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   sftp> put sbc-V03.01.00-R000.x86_64.tar.gz /opt/sonus/external

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You can also do a search from the EMA GUI. To view the Routing workspace, see Call Routing: System Provisioning - Routing.

How do I display the status of all the trunk groups in a Zone?

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If I have multiple SIP Signaling Ports configured in a Zone, which is the source IP when sending a request to a peer?

As a best practice, Sonus Ribbon recommends configuring one signaling port per zone. The SBC chooses a port (usually the first port) in the zone for outbound connections. However, the SBC cannot enforce the use of a specific signaling port within the zone to initiate a call on a trunk group. The trunk is assigned to a zone and not to a signaling port in the configuration model.  To associate a unique source port for each trunk group, create separate zones defining a single signaling port per zone.

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The OIDs are indexes in the MIB tables, and indexes are not readable using SNMP GET requests. The SNMP GETNEXT requests are used to find out what indexes are currently present in the MIB tables. For more information, refer to the section How to Retrieve Sonus Ribbon Enterprise MIB OIDs.