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Cisco ONS 15454 Procedure Guide, R7.0
November 2007
Chapter22 DLPs A500 to A599
DLP- A518 Create a New or Cloned Alarm Severity Profile
Step9 Click Clone in the shortcut menu.
Tip To see the full list of profiles, including those available for loading or cloning, click Available.
You must load a profile before you can clone it.
Step10 In the New Profile or Clone Profile dialog box, enter a name in the New Profile Name field.
Profile names must be unique. If you try to import or name a profile that has the same name as another
profile, CTC adds a suffix to create a new name. Long file names are supported.
Step11 Click OK.
A new alarm profile (named in Step10) is created. This profile duplicates the default profile severities
and appears at the right of the previous profile column in the Alarm Profiles window. You can select it
and drag it to a different position.
Note Up to 10 profiles, including the two reserved profiles, Inherited and Default, can be stored in
CTC.
The Default profile sets severities to standard Telcordia GR-253-CORE settings. If an alarm has an
Inherited profile, it inherits (copies) its severity from the same alarm's severity at the higher level. For
example, if you choose the Inherited profile from the network view, the severities at the lower levels
(node, card and port) will be copied from this selection. A card with an Inherited alarm profile copies
the severities used by the node that contains the card. (If you are creating profiles, you can apply these
separately at any level. To do this, complete the “DLP-A117 Apply Alarm Profiles to Cards and Nodes”
task on page 18-5.)
Step12 Modify (customize) the new alarm profile:
a. In the new alarm profile column, click the alarm severity you want to change in the custom profile.
b. Choose a severity from the drop-down list.
c. Repeat Steps a and b for each severity you want to customize. Refer to the following guidelines
when you view the alarms or conditions after making modifications:
•All Critical (CR) or Major (MJ) default or user-defined severity settings are demoted to
Minor (MN) in Non-Service-Affecting (NSA) situations as defined in Telcordia GR-474.
•Default severities are used for all alarms and conditions until you create and apply a new profile.
•Changing a severity to inherited (I) or unset (U) does not change the severity of the alarm.
Step13 After you have customized the new alarm profile, right-click the profile column to highlight it.
Step14 Click Store.
Step15 In the Store Profile(s) dialog box, click To Nod e(s ) and go to Step a or click To File and go to Step b
(Figure 22-3).