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4 • Alarms
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Alarms management windows
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Blue
: indicates that one or more
informational
(severity 7) alarms are active. Being informational in
nature, these alarms only appear on the Alarm System main window to indicate that an event has
occurred, they do not generate alarm indications anywhere else.
Figure 13. Modify Parameters and Modify Severity hyperlinks
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External host indication—For external notification, the 6511RC can be configured to send a Syslog event
notification or an SNMP trap message (or both) to an external alarms management host. To configure the
6511RC to send SNMP traps or Syslog messages in response to alarm conditions, click on the Modify
Parameters hyperlink (see
figure 13
) to open the Alarm System Configurations—Alarm Response Outputs win-
dow (refer to section
“Alarm System Configurations window”
on page 25).
In addition to viewing current alarm status, you can force the 6511RC to generate an alarm as a test by clicking
on the Generate Alarm button (see
figure 12
on page 23) for the desired alarm. Click on the Clear Alarm but-
ton (see
figure 12
on page 23) to clear the alarm when the test is concluded.
Figure 14. Alarms management diagram
Figure 15. Alarm System Configurations window
Alarms management windows
As shown in
figure 11
on page 22 and
figure 14
, the Alarms System Overview window provides links to the fol-
lowing alarm system management windows:
Alarm System Overview
Modify Alarm
System Parameters
Modify Alarm
Severity
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