Chapter 11
Alarm Monitoring and Management
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Button
Store
Rename
Clone
Reset
Remove
11.3.4 Alarm Severity Option
To change or assign alarm severity, left-click the alarm severity you want to change in the alarm profile
column. Seven severity levels appear for the alarm:
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Transient and Use Default severity levels only appear in alarm profiles. They do not appear when you
view alarms, history, or conditions.
11.3.5 Row Display Options
In the network view, the Alarm Profiles window has two check boxes at the bottom of the window:
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11.3.6 Alarm Profile Applications
In CTC node view, the Provisioning > Alarm Profiles > Alarm Profile Editor window displays alarm
profiles for the node, and in card view this windows displays the alarm profiles for the selected card.
Alarm profiles form a hierarchy. A node-level alarm profile applies to all cards in the node except cards
that have their own profiles. A card-level alarm profile applies to all ports on the card except ports that
have their own profiles.
At the node level, you can apply profile changes on a card-by-card basis or set a profile for the entire
node. At the card-level view, you can apply profile changes on a port-by-port basis for all ports on that
card.
Alarm Profile Editing Options
Description
Saves a profile in a node or in a file.
Changes a profile name.
Creates a new profile that contains the same alarm severity settings as the profile
being cloned.
Restores a profile to its previous state or to the original state (if it has not yet been
applied).
Removes a profile from the table editor.
Not Reported (NR)
Not Alarmed (NA)
Minor (MN)
Major (MJ)
Critical (CR)
Use Default
Transient (T)
Hide values matching profile Default—Highlights alarms with nondefault severities by clearing
alarm cells with default severities (disabled in R6.0).
Hide identical rows—Hides rows of alarms that contain the same severity for each profile.
Figure 11-6
shows an OC48 card view of an alarm profile.
11.3.4 Alarm Severity Option
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