About This Guide

This guide includes the following chapters:

Chapter 1, “Fault Management Overview”—Describes how to manage events, and introduces some of the key concepts of Cisco ANA alarm management.

Chapter 2, “Fault Detection and Isolation”—Describes unreachable network elements and the sources of alarms on devices. In addition, it describes alarm integrity and the integrity service

Chapter 3, “Cisco ANA Event Correlation and Suppression”—Describes how Cisco ANA performs correlation logic decisions.

Chapter 4, “Advanced Correlation Scenarios”—Describes specific alarms which use advanced correlation logic on top of the root cause analysis flow.

Chapter 5, “Correlation Over Unmanaged Segments”—Describes how Cisco ANA performs correlation decisions over unmanaged segments.

Chapter 6, “Event and Alarm Configuration Parameters”—Describes the details of various configurable alarm parameters.

Chapter 7, “Impact Analysis”—Describes the impact analysis functionality available in Cisco ANA.

Appendix A, “Supported Service Alarms”—Provides the list of service alarms that are supported in Cisco ANA.

Appendix B, “Event and Alarm Correlation Flow”—Describes in detail the flow of alarms and events during the correlation process.

Obtaining Documentation, Obtaining Support, and Security Guidelines

For information on obtaining documentation, obtaining support, providing documentation feedback, security guidelines, and also recommended aliases and general Cisco documents, see the monthly What’s New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html

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3.6 specifications

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