Root-Cause Alarms, Correlation Flows | Cisco Systems 3.6 specs

Chapter 3 Cisco ANA Event Correlation and Suppression

Root-Cause Alarms

Potential root-cause alarms have a determined weight according to the specific event customization. Refer to Chapter 6, “Event and Alarm Configuration Parameters” for additional information about setting the weights. For example, a link-down alarm is configured to allow other alarms to correlate to it, thus when a link-down event is recognized, other alarms that occur in the network may choose to correlate to it, hence identifying it as the cause for their occurrence. However an event that is configured to be the cause for other alarms can in its turn correlate to another alarm. The topmost alarm in the correlation tree is the root cause for all the alarms.

Correlation Flows

The VNEs utilize their internal device component model (DCM) in order to perform the actual correlation. This action is considered to be a correlation flow. There are two basic correlation mechanisms used by the VNE:

1.Correlation by Key (correlation in the same VNE).

2.Correlation by Flow (correlation across VNEs or in the same VNE). Each event can be configured to:

•Not correlate at all.

•Perform correlation by key.

•Perform correlation by flow.

For more information about these parameters, see Chapter 6, “Event and Alarm Configuration

Parameters”.

In addition, the DC model cache enables the system to issue correlation flows over an historical network snapshot that existed in the network before a failure occurred. For more information see DC Model Correlation Cache.

Correlation by Key

When the root cause problem is at the box level, attempts to correlate to other events are restricted to the specific VNE. This means that the correlation flow does not cross the DCM models of more than one VNE. An example is a port-down syslog event correlating to a port-down event.

An exception for this behavior is the link-down alarm. Since a link entity connects two endpoints in the DCM model, it involves the DCM of two different VNEs, but on each VNE the events are correlated to their own copy of the link-down event.

Correlation by Flow

Network problems and their effects are not always restricted to one network element. This means that a certain event could have the capability of correlating to an alarm several hops away. To do this the correlation mechanism within the VNE uses an active correlation flow that runs on the internal VNE’s DCM model and tries to correlate along a specified network path to an alarm. This is similar to the Cisco ANA PathTracer operation when it traces a path on the DCM model from point A to point Z, except that it is trying to correlate to a root-cause alarm along the way, rather than just tracing a path.

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