Strange symptoms on OSC-CSM

Hi!
I notice something strange with OSC-CSM card on ONS 15454 MSTP. It showed as red in CTC with APS state is disable. Alarm indicate equipemtn failure. But when I view at card level all ports are green and optical power is good. However on the network and circuit (OCHNC) view one of the line is grey while the other is green and the state is partial. Traffic from the client however is passing through. This is strange. The manual says that I can soft reset the card from CTC or reseat/replace it but I dont want to do this now as this will interrupt operation. What's the best course to take? Apreciate your expert advice. Thanks.

When you went back to Snow Leopard, did you erase the ENTIRE drive with the 10.6 disk first?
Lion alters the partition map of the boot drive, if you didn't erase and format the entire drive with the 10.6 version of the GUID parititon map, Snow Leopard might be having a problem with the 10.7 version of the GUID.
Clone the 10.6 OS X partiton off to a external drive with Carbon Copy Cloner, check that your files are there.
Hold c boot off the 10.6 disk and erase the entire drive (select the makers name and size on the far left) use the Zero Erase option, that will map off any bad sectors you might be having. Install 10.6 fresh, same log in name, Software Updater till clear.
Reinstall your 10.6 programs from fresh sources and finally hook up the clone and transfer just the users file folders (music, pictures etc., not Library) into the same ones on the internal.
This is know as a "Fresh Install" combined with the Zero Erase of the internal boot drive, should map off bad sectors and cure all your problems.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents
People don't know that Lion alters the GUID and creates a hidden Lion Recovery partition at the bottom of the drive, thus can cause issues as Snow Leopard doesn't know what the heck is going on.

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I would like to get back to my last question about connecting a muxponder and an OSC-CSM directly without using MUX and DMUX. I found this in cisco 14545 documentation :
<<<<<<<<<< For a direct connection between TXP or MXP cards, when ALS Auto Restart is enabled and the connections do not pass through a DWDM layer, a similar process takes place. However, because the connections do not go through any amplifier or OSC cards, the TXP or MXP cards attempt to establish communication directly between themselves after a system failure. This is done using a two-second restart pulse, in a manner similar to that previously described between OSCs at the DWDM layer. The power emitted during the pulse is below Hazard Level 1. source : http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/optical/ps2006/products_technical_reference_chapter09186a00807d5653.html. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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