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Introduction
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FS6300 NMS Administrator’s Reference Guide
6 • Managing Alarms and Network Events
Introduction
The
Fault Management
section of the NMS application allows you to manage alarms and network events.
Alarms indicate errors occuring on a network or device. Network events relate to occurrences in the network ,
such as discovery, status updates, or a device failure. This chapter describes how to manage alarm indications,
view network events, configure trap and event parsers, configure event filters, and save the current list of net-
work events.
Configuring Alarm Indications
In order to configure alarms, you need to configure the IP address of the NMS server which traps the alarm
reports from each of the cards in the network. By default, the Alarm Trap IP address is 0.0.0.0, so no alarms are
detected by the NMS.
You can configure the Alarm Trap Manager in two different ways, by right-clicking on a network node in the
Geographical Areas section, or by right-clicking on a card in the Chassis section.
Configuring Alarms through the Network Node
To configure the IP address for the Alarm Trap field for each card:
1.
From the menu tree on the left side of the screen, select the
Geographical Area
for the node that you want
to configure.
2.
In the main window, right-click on the
Network Node
, then select
Alarm Trap Manager.
The
Configure Alarm Trap Manager
window dispalys. You may configure the Alarm Trap Manager for
any particular card in the chassis’ subnet or you can configure all of the cards in the subnet at once.
Figure 81. Alarm Trap Manager
3.
Select the card that you would like to configure from the
Select Card
drop-down menu. If you would like
to configure all of the cards at the same time, select the
Configure All Cards
checkbox at the bottom of the
screen.