Procedures for Optimizing Tunnel Paths

To switch to design mode, click on the “Design” button on the main menu bar as shown in Figure 270. The Design pull-down menu gets activated. To switch to Tunnel layer mode, select the “Tunnel Layer” button on the layer selection bar.

Figure 1: Switching to Design Mode, and Tunnel Layer

Before using the network grooming feature, you should change the tunnel path settings from “required” to “preferred” for those paths that you want to improve the routes of. To do this for all of your tunnels, select Design > Route Paths > Interactive Mode. From the console, select “Update Preferred Path Setting” for the following menu.

Preferred Path Modification Menu:

1. # Tunnel with Preferred Path setting= 0 primary, 0 secondary

2. # Tunnel with Required Path setting= 5 primary, 0 secondary

3. Use current routes as preferred/required paths

Select:

If any tunnels have the required setting, select 2. You will then be asked to apply changes to the primary tunnels, secondary/standby tunnels, or all. Select 3 for all.

Apply Changes to 1: Primary only, 2. Secondary/Standby only, 3. All

3

Required Paths Modification Menu:

1. Change to Preferred, 2. Remove All Required Paths, 3. No Change

Select:

Select 1 to change the paths to preferred paths. Press <Enter> repeatedly until you exit out of the console.