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Chapter 12 Managing Alarms

Creating, Editing, and Duplicating Alarm Thresholds

Table 12-16	ACS System Diagnostics
Option		Description
Severity at and above		Use the drop-down list box to choose the severity level on which you want to configure your
		threshold. This setting captures the indicated severity level and those that are higher within the
		threshold. Valid options are:
		•	Fatal
		•	Error
		•	Warning
		•	Info
		•	Debug
Message Text		Enter the message text on which you want to configure your threshold. Maximum character limit is
		1024.
Filter

ACS Instance

Click Select to choose a valid ACS instance on which to configure your threshold.

Related Topics

•Creating, Editing, and Duplicating Alarm Thresholds, page 12-11

•Configuring General Threshold Information, page 12-13

•Configuring Threshold Notifications, page 12-32

ACS Process Status

When ACS evaluates this threshold, it examines the accounting records that it received during the interval between the previous and current alarm evaluation cycle.

If one or more accounting records match, it calculates the time that has lapsed since the previous alarm evaluation cycle. When it reaches two, three, or five minutes depending on the number of active thresholds, ACS determines whether any ACS process has failed during that time.

If ACS detects one or more failures, an alarm is triggered. You can limit the check to particular processes or a particular ACS instance or both.

Choose this category to define threshold criteria based on ACS process status. Modify the fields in the Criteria tab as described in Table 12-17.

Table 12-17 ACS Process Status

Option

Description

Monitor Processes

ACS Database	Check the check box to add the ACS database to your threshold configuration.
ACS Management	Check the check box to add the ACS management to your threshold
	configuration.
ACS Runtime	Check the check box to add the ACS runtime to your threshold configuration.
Monitoring and Reporting Database	Check the check box to have this process monitored. If this process goes down,
	an alarm is generated.
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