E/// external cells from 2G to 3G

[ubiquitous]

Hi dear experts.
We have a lot of "empty" 3G external cells from E/// 2G. Neighbour cells doesn`t attached to them. Is there any report to find all of such externals and what is the command to delete them?

BR.

[Ghost78]

Hi;

can you give more details, what do you mean by empty 3G external cells, do you mean that there are some 2G cell defined as external in 3G side, and these 2G are not there in your 2G network, if it is the case, take a dump from oss to get externalgsmrelation, use vlookup to findout the cells which are not defined in 2G; and send the list utrancell-gsmexternalrelation to backoffic to be deleted.

B.R

[ubiquitous]

Hi.
Actually there are 3g external cells which is defined as adjacencies from 2g to 3g. Then I think neighbours was deleted but external cells still exists. They are not needed anymore. So I need find them and delete.
B.R.

[juanpico]

Dear

It should be a practice to delete all neighbor relation for 3G-2G // 2G-3G whenever you recover/decommission a site to somehow help to lessen the number of external network relation which is up to 32 and avoid definition errors whenever you define a new site.

For my case, 2G-2G and 3G-3G are easily deleted if there are within BSC/RNC but if they are external, the target BSC/RNC are not aware that the source cell was already deleted

Cheers

br//juanpico/rf

[oswe]

Hi dear experts.
We have a lot of "empty" 3G external cells from E/// 2G. Neighbour cells doesn`t attached to them. Is there any report to find all of such externals and what is the command to delete them?

BR.

hi there !
i know what you mean we suffered similar case
we lost BA-search-list parameters and External wcdma cells. somehow the BSC was "deleting" external neighbors.
We complained to E*** and they checked processor logs and said it was a very low level "glitch" on the processors access to hd and nothing can be done.
the thing is this old equipment you cannot complain much as all the support is almost over and dates are on expiry at least here.

ok command for external is
RLDEP:CELL=ALL,EXT;
treat as any cell, but put "ext"
then to print the relationship 2g->3g is:

RLNRP:CELL=ALL,utran;

perhaps the best you can do is take a backup every month or whatever.
if you want to print in column format you need to make a script. if you know awk parsing that´s medium difficulty.
good luck