Fiber User Settings

As of 10.2.1a X-style networks are no longer supported. Tracing does not follow X-style tracing components.

Directional tracing allows you to determine in which direction the trace travels. When this option is disabled, the trace travels in all available directions. If you enable directional tracing, the trace travels only in a direction that you define. A full description of directional tracing and how it interacts with Y-style tracing is available in the Appendix.

You can adjust the default loss values for each configured splice type. When adjusting default loss values for more than one splice type, click the Apply button before selecting another splice type. Changing the default values does not affect existing data.

Connection Manager displays a warning dialog when disconnecting items that are normally connected permanently (e.g., backside ports). Deselect this option to suppress warning messages.

To avoid the generation of incorrect data, fiber optic cables with length sources set to Footstamps, Documents/Field Notes, or OTDR Length are changed after a split. Each of the two linear features resulting from a split revert to a length source of GIS Length+Slack Loops. A message displays whenever this occurs. Clear this checkbox to turn off these notifications.

Checking this box means that when you disconnect or reconnect a fiber that has circuits on it, Circuit Manager updates the availability counts along the circuit; i.e., each cable traversed by the circuit gets an updated value in its attribute that stores the number of available fibers in this cable.

This setting works in conjunction with Set all along circuit to... in Circuit Manager, which has a drop-down of Available and Unavailable options.

If you check the Update availability along circuit path and mark everything as unavailable, and you simultaneously have the Set all along circuit to...unchecked, then the strands are marked unavailable though the counts are not updated in response. The counts along the circuit won’t change, but the individual fibers change their state.

Use this feature to change how the end point symbol displays for an OTDR trace. As it's labeled, this setting affects your current editing session, not future sessions.

The default behavior of Fiber Manager is to re-calculate (or heal) circuits in real time while you are editing. While this ensures circuit fidelity, it adds to the processing time while editing. Thus, you can turn off circuit healing during ArcMap editing (the UI events), and instead, record the circuits that need healing to be processed later in bulk. See the Configuration Guide topic ArcFM Fiber Circuit Batch Healing for more information.

The default behavior of Fiber Manager is to re-calculate (or heal) circuits in real time while you are reconciling and posting your session or version. While this ensures circuit fidelity, it adds to the processing time. Thus, you can turn off circuit healing during reconcile and post, and instead, record the circuits that need healing to be processed later in bulk. See the Configuration Guide topic ArcFM Fiber Circuit Batch Healing for more information.