Chapter 10 Alarm Monitoring And Management; Overview; Viewing Ons 15327 Alarms - Cisco ONS 15327 User Documentation

Alarm Monitoring and Management
This chapter explains how to manage alarms with Cisco Transport Controller (CTC), which includes:
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To troubleshoot specific alarms, see

10.1 Overview

The CTC detects and reports SONET alarms generated by the Cisco ONS 15327 and larger SONET
network. You can use CTC to monitor and manage alarms at the card, node, or network level. Default
alarm severities conform to the Telcordia GR-253-CORE standard, but you can reset severities to
customized alarm profiles or suppress CTC alarm reporting. For a detailed description of the standard
Telcordia categories employed by ONS nodes, see
ONS 15327 alarms can also be monitored and managed through TL1 or a network management system
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(NMS).

10.2 Viewing ONS 15327 Alarms

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Viewing alarms
Viewing history
Viewing conditions
Creating and managing alarm profiles
Suppressing alarms
At the card, node, or network-level CTC view, click the Alarms tab to display the alarms for that
card, node or network. Table 10-1
column as shown from the CTC node view.
Chapter 14, "Alarm Troubleshooting".
Chapter 14, "Alarm
lists the tab column headings and the information recorded in each
Cisco ONS 15327 User Documentation, R3.3
C H A P T E R
Troubleshooting".
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