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Cisco BTS 10200 Softswitch Troubleshooting Guide, Release 5.0.x
OL-8723-19
Chapter 1 Troubleshooting Overview
Managing Events and Alarms
Format of Alarm Reports
The general format of an alarm report, as displayed on an operator console, is shown below. An alarm
summary contains multiple alarm reports, selected according to the query that is entered. For example,
the following query produced the result shown here.
show alarm type=callp; number=23; [email protected]
Reply: Success: Request was successfully completed
ID=123456
TYPE=callp
NUMBER=23
TEXT=Trunk Group Out Of Service
STATUS=ACKNOWLEDGED
SEVERITY=MAJOR
TIME=2004-04-23 10:54:20
COMPONENT [email protected]
ORIGIN=bcm@ca146
THREAD=
DATAWORD1=
through
DATAWORD8=
describes the format of event and alarm reports.
Table 1-1
Format of Event and Alarm Reports
Event or Alarm Report Contents
Description
Event or Alarm Number
All events and alarms have a unique, system-assigned ID token number.
Event or Alarm Type
Type is the designated category of the report: AUDIT, BILLING, call processing
(CALLP), CONFIG, DATABASE, MAINTENANCE, operations support system (OSS),
SECURITY, SIGNALING, STATISTICS, or SYSTEM.
Event or Alarm Number
Event or alarm numbers are preset in the BTS 10200. They are not provisionable and
cannot be changed.
Event or Alarm Description
Up to an 80-character description of the event or alarm.
Alarm Status
Status for an alarm can be ALARM_ON, ALARM_OFF, or ALARM_IGNORE.
Event or Alarm Severity
Event Severity: Information (INFO), WARNING, MINOR, MAJOR, or CRITICAL
Alarm Severity: MINOR, MAJOR, or CRITICAL
Event or Alarm Date and Time
Date and time of report in the format yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.
Year, month, and day plus hours, minutes, and seconds of an alarm or event, displayed in
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Event or Alarm Component ID
ID for the component reporting the event or alarm, for example,
.
Event or Alarm Origin
ID for the process generating the event or alarm.
Event or Alarm Thread
Thread within the BTS 10200 process that initially issued the alarm.
Event or Alarm Datawords
Header for additional data fields to an event or alarm. Up to 8 data fields can be reported,
depending on the event or alarm. These are the cause and actions listed for each
event/alarm.