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Alarms | Key Portlets
Share with User —Selecting this opens a screen where you can select the user you want to send the
selected alarm, and can enter a message you want to send with it. See Sharing on page 87.
Clicking Share Asset sends a chat message to the selected user with a link that opens to
display the Alarm Snap Panels for the selected item.
Tip
Hover your cursor over the
Device IP Address
column, and a
tooltip appears with information about the alarm source’s
Model, Vendor, Discovery Date,
and a
Ping Rate
bar graph
.
This can also include other device-dependent items. For
example: bar graphs to display the
% CPU
[utilization],
%
Memory,
and
Description.
The convention indicating such tooltips are available is the
question mark that appears next to the cursor when you
hover it over the displayed field.
Alarm Snap Panels
These include the following:
Alarm Details —The source, Severity , Message , Date Opened , and so on.
MIB Details —The Notification OID, and MIB Text for the selected alarm.
Reference Tree —The connection between the alarm and its source in tree form.
Total Occurrences by Date —A graph of the total occurrences of this alarm, by date.
Alarm Email
The e-mail sent by right-clicking an alarm has the subject specified when you send it, and contains
the information within the alarm. For example:
Alarm: monitorIntervalSkip
Alarm Attributes:
===============================
Device IP =
Message =
Alarm State = Open
Severity = 5 - Major
Count = 1
Date Opened = Tue Dec 14 22:01:30 PST 2010
Update Date/Time = Tue Dec 14 22:01:36 PST 2010