Chapter 12 Managing Alarms

Viewing and Editing Alarms in Your Inbox

Table 12-2

Alarms Page (continued)

 

 

 

Option

 

Description

 

 

 

Time

 

Display only. Indicates the time of the associated alarm generation in the format Ddd Mmm dd

 

 

hh:mm:ss timezone yyyy, where:

 

 

Ddd = Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat.

 

 

Mmm = Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec.

 

 

dd = A two-digit numeric representation of the day of the month, from 01 to 31.

 

 

hh = A two-digit numeric representation of the hour of the day, from 00 to 23.

 

 

mm = A two-digit numeric representation of the minute of the hour, from 00 to 59.

 

 

ss = A two-digit numeric representation of the second of the minute, from 00 to 59.

 

 

timezone = The time zone.

 

 

yyyy = A four-digit representation of the year.

 

 

 

Cause

 

Display only. Indicates the cause of the alarm.

 

 

 

Assigned To

 

Display only. Indicates who is assigned to investigate the alarm.

 

 

 

Status

 

Display only. Indicates the status of the alarm. Options are:

 

 

New—The alarm is new.

 

 

Acknowledged—The alarm is known.

 

 

Closed—The alarm is closed.

 

 

 

Edit

 

Check the check box next to the alarm that you want to edit, and click Edit to edit the status of the

 

 

alarm and view the corresponding report.

 

 

 

Close

 

Check the check box next to the alarm that you want to close, and click Close to close the alarm. You

 

 

can enter closing notes before you close an alarm.

 

 

Closing an alarm only removes the alarm from the dashboard. It does not delete the alarm.

 

 

 

Delete

 

Check the check box next to the alarm that you want to delete, and click Delete to delete the alarm.

 

 

 

Table 12-3 System Alarms in ACS 5.3

Alarm

Severity

 

 

Purge Related Alarms

 

 

 

Backup failed. Backup failed before Database Purge.

Critical

 

 

Backup successful. Backup failed before Database Purge.

Info

 

 

Database Purge for Daily Tables failed. Exception Details.

Critical

 

 

Database Purge for Monthy Tables failed. Exception Details.

Critical

 

 

Database Purge for Yearly Tables failed. Exception Details.

Critical

 

 

Incremental backup is not configured. Configuring incremental backup is

Warning

necessary to make the database purge successful. This will help to avoid disk

 

space issues. View database Size is filesize in GB and size it occupies on the

 

harddisk is actual db size in GB.

 

 

 

 

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