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Chapter 10 Alarm Monitoring and Management
Alarm Profiles
CTC can store up to ten active alarm profiles at any time to apply to the node. Custom profiles can take
eight of these active profile positions. Two other profiles, Default profile and Inherited profile, are
reserved by the NE, and cannot be edited. The reserved Inherited profile allows port alarm severities to
be governed by the card-level severities, or card alarm severities to be determined by the node-level
severities.
If one or more alarm profiles is stored as files from elsewhere in the network onto the local PC or server
hard drive where CTC resides, you can use as many profiles as you can physically store by deleting and
replacing them locally in CTC so that only eight are active at any given time.
10.4.1 Creating and Modifying Alarm Profiles
Alarm profiles are created in the network view using the Provisioning > Alarm Profiles tabs. After
loading the default profile or another profile on the node, you can use the Clone feature to create custom
profiles. After the new profile is created, the Alarm Profiles window shows the original
profile—frequently Default—and the new profile.
Tip To see the full list of profiles including those available for loading or cloning, click the Available button.
You must load a profile before you can clone it.
In the Inherited profile, alarms inherit, or copy severity from the next-highest level. For example, a card
with an Inherited alarm profile copies the severities used by the node housing the card. If you choose the
Inherited profile from the network view, the severities at the lower levels (node and card) are copied from
this selection.
You do not have to apply a single severity profile to the node, card, and port level alarms. Different
profiles can be applied at different levels. For example, you could use the inherited or default profile on
a node and on all cards and ports, but apply a custom profile that downgrades an alarm on one particular
card. Or you might choose to downgrade an STMN unequipped path alarm (UNEQ-P) from Critical (CR)
to Not Alarmed (NA) on an optical card because this alarm is raised and then clears every time you create
a circuit. UNEQ-P alarms for the card with the custom profile would not display on the Alarms tab (but
they would still be recorded on the Conditions and History tabs).
When you modify severities in an alarm profile:
• All Critical (CR) or Major (MJ) default or user-defined severity settings are demoted.
• Default severities are used for all alarms and conditions until you create a new profile and apply it.
10.4.2 Alarm Profile Buttons
The Alarm Profiles window displays six buttons at the bottom. Table 10-8 lists and describes each of the
alarm profile buttons and their functions.
Table 10-8 Alarm Profile Buttons
Button Description
New Adds a new alarm profile.
Load Loads a profile from a node or a file.
Store Saves profiles on a node (or nodes) or in a file.
Delete Deletes profiles from a node.