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130 TimeCreator 1000 User’s Guide 097-93100-01 Revision C – February, 2010
Appendix A Alarms, Events and SNMP Traps
Alarm Messages
Alarm Messages
The TimeCreator 1000 provides set and clear alarm messages to notify you when
certain conditions are exceeding the user-specified levels (when alarms are set)
and when certain conditions return to within the user-specified levels (when alarms
are cleared). Alarms also indicate hardware and signal status.
There are several parameters used to identify or specify individual alarms, events
and traps, as shown in
Table A-1 below.
Table A-2 below provides a list of alarm messages and a description of each
message. Event Messages
Table A-1. Identification Parameters for Alarms, Events and Traps
Parameter Description Where Found
Alarm/Event ID Integer value used with the
“generate message” command to
specify individual alarms/events In Trap OID Name
column in
Table A-6 and
Table A-9 . Values listed in
parentheses.
Example : (id=27)
Trap Name
(trapID) Text string used as a Binding to
specify or identify individual
alarms,events and traps. See Table A-2 , Table A-3 ,
Table A-5 , Table A-6 ,
Table A-8 , and Table A-9
Alarm Code Text string used to:

set the alarm states with “set
alarm-state” command

set the alarm thresholds with
“set alarm-threshold”
command
See Table 5-7 and
Table B-1
Note: You can display the events and alarms on a terminal or
computer running terminal emulation by entering the
Show
Alarm
command. Refer to
Show Alarms , on page 178
and
Establishing a Connection to the TimeCreator 1000 , on page 72
for
further details.