SAL does not work

Troubleshooting steps

If the Secure Access Link (SAL) in your Avaya Aura solution is not operating normally, Avaya Support will not receive alarms and other important messages originating from the various components and applications in your system. Neither will Avaya Support be able to connect to your system for remote diagnosis. If you suspect a malfunctioning SAL in your system, try this procedure.

About this task

If you do not see results similar to those shown in the ping and wget examples following these troubleshooting steps, contact your corporate IT organization.

Procedure

  1. Ping the DNS server in the customer network.
  2. Ping the proxy server in the customer network.
  3. Ping support.avaya.com to check DNS is working.
  4. Try a wget using the proxy from the command line to check that the proxy is working.

Example

Ping for server DNS or proxy server reachability:

ping 135.9.69.123

Pinging 135.9.69.123 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 135.9.69.123: bytes=32 time=111ms TTL=54

Reply from 135.9.69.123: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=54

Reply from 135.9.69.123: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=54

Reply from 135.9.69.123: bytes=32 time=100ms TTL=54

Ping statistics for 135.9.69.123:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 100ms, Maximum = 111ms, Average = 103ms

Ping for Avaya support server reachability

ping support.avaya.com

Pinging support.avaya.com [198.152.212.23] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 198.152.212.23: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=244

Reply from 198.152.212.23: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=244

Reply from 198.152.212.23: bytes=32 time=101ms TTL=244

Reply from 198.152.212.23: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=244

Ping statistics for 198.152.212.23:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 101ms, Maximum = 102ms, Average = 101ms

WGET for HTTP response from Avaya support

wget http://support.avaya.com

HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK