RAD Data comm Vmux-2100 Voice Trunking Gateway Chapter Monitoring and Statistics Collection

Chapter 7

Monitoring and Statistics

Collection

This chapter describes the alarms, sanity checks (configuration errors and warnings), main link and voice module statistics supported by Vmux-2100.

7.1 Alarms

Vmux-2100 detects fault conditions and initiates alarms and events to alert the user:

•Alarms (major and minor) have two statuses, ON and OFF. Alarm status changes to OFF, when a fault condition that caused it is cleared.

•Events have only ON status.

Alarm Buffer

Vmux-2100 maintains two alarm buffers:

•Temporary buffer, represented in the Display All Alarms screen. The user can delete all alarms, including the active ones from this display.

•Permanent buffer, represented in the Alarm Status screen. The user can delete only inactive alarms from the Alarm Status display.

An alarm enters simultaneously both Display All Alarms and Alarm Status logs, and the ALM LED turns on to indicate the condition. In addition, Vmux-2100 displays ALARM ON indication in the top right-hand corner of the terminal screen. When the event that caused the alarm is cleared, the alarm status changes to OFF, enabling the user to remove it from the permanent buffer.

Working with the Temporary Alarm Buffer

The temporary buffer is represented by the Display All Alarms screen.

To access the Display All Alarms screen:

1.From the Main menu, choose Monitoring. The Monitoring menu appears.

2.From the Monitoring menu, choose Status. The Status menu appears (see Figure 7-1).

Alarms 7-1