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Chapter 4
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Table 4-7. Alarm Configuration Parameter Descriptions
Parameter
Description
Name
Name of the alarm.
If there is an asterisk as first character it means it is a transient alarm.
For alarms that have multiple secondary info (e.g. Excessive Traffic
on Ethernet port has a secondary field that identifies which port),
these settings are global to all of the secondary cases.
State
Indicates the current status of the alarm based on color
Always grey (unlit) if the event is transient.
Green if severity is Minor, Major, or Notify and the condition is not
SET or if the user has cleared (acknowledged it) even if it is SET.
Blue if severity is Notify and the condition is SET and not
user-cleared
Amber if severity is Minor and the condition is SET and not
user-cleared
Red if severity is Major and the condition is SET and not
user-cleared
Clear Now
This is a user-control to cause some of the alarm report mechanisms
to extinguish that particular alarm indication. These include
Dashboard > Alarms, Alarm summary at top of Web GUI, Physical
alarm connector, front panel Alarm LED, and Alarm information on
front-panel display.This is really just an acknowledgement of the
alarm, but of course has no ability to impact the underlying condition.
Auto ACK
This is the same as Clear Now except it provides an automatic
clearing action after a user-defined time period following SET of the
alarm. Zero (default) means to never auto-clear it.
Severity
Controls the reported severity level of the alarm.
Notify | Minor | Major
The severity level “Notify” is not reported on Dashboard > Alarms,
Alarm summary at top of Web GUI, Physical alarm connector, front
panel Alarm LED, Alarm information on front-panel display. This also
applies to transient alarms.
Reporting Delay
This value can be used to defer the time from when the condition
becomes SET until it is actually reported. If the condition has cleared
by the time the delay has elapsed then the alarm is never reported.
Main purpose would be to avoid "chatter".
Send Trap
Provides "per alarm" user control of reporting the alarm via SNMP
Trap. All severities are reported with Traps.
