Adding Policies
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FS6300 NMS Administrator’s Reference Guide
10 • Managing Database Policies
Alert Action Policy
The
Alert Action Policy
checks alarms in the database. If an alarm is in the same state for a certain amount of
a time without any change in severity, an action (set by the administrator) will be taken.
Table 10
describes the
fields for adding a new
AlertAction
policy.
Figure 111. Adding Alert Action Policy
Table 10. Alert Action Policy Properties
Property
Description
Policy Name
Displays the name of the policy.
This field cannot be edited
.
Group Name
Displays the default group name. Edit this field to change the group name.
Default = deault
Status
Specify whether the policy is Enabled or Disabled.
The policy can be executed only if it is Enabled.
Periodicity (secs)
Specify the interval (in seconds) between two successive execution of the policy.
Default =10 seconds
Severity
Specifies the severity of an alarm that causes an action to take place if the severity
state hasn’t changed in a certain amount of time.
Category
Specify the category which serves as a match criterion.
Alert Group Name
Specify the name of the alert group.
Source
Specify the name of the source whose alerts are to be picked.
Entity
Specify the name of the interface the source (whose alerts are to be picked) com-
municates with.
Owner’s List
Specify the e-mail IDs that picked alerts are e-mailed to.
Applies to the 'Send E-mail Action'.
Action Time
(in secs)
Specify the maximum time limit for an alarm to remain in a particular state.
If an alarm remains in the same state for more than the specified period, then an
action is triggered.