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Chapter 14 Alarm Monitoring and Manageme nt
14.5.1 Creating and Modifying 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 Default pro file contains Telcordia GR-474
severities. 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 have been 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.
14.5.1 Creating and Modifying Alarm Profiles
Alarm profiles are created in the network view using the Provisioning > Alarm Profiles tabs. Figure 14-3
shows the default list of alarm severities. A default alarm severity following Telcordia GR-253 standards
is preprovisioned for every alarm. After loading the default profile o r another profile on the node, you
can clone a profile to create custom profiles. After the new profile is created, the Alarm Profiles window
shows the original profile (frequently Default) and the new profile.
Figure 14-3 Network View Alarm Profiles Window
The alarm profile list contains a master list of alarms that is used for a mixed node network. Some of
these alarms might not be used in all ONS nodes.
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.