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User’s Guide

Alarm Editor

There are six alarm groups that appear on the tabs in the Alarm Editor. The Expert tab and Application Response tab are only available if you have the Expert plug-in. The Multi-QoS tab only appears if you have the Multi-QoS software plug-in.

Table 9-1 lists the alarm groups in the Alarm Editor.

	Table 9-1. Alarm Editor
Alarm Editor	Description
MQOS	Allows you to modify and enable any of the 7 Multi-QoS alarms.
	Alarms test for call jitter times, call setup times, dropped packets, and
	R-factors in VoIP calls. You can set alarms to test against specific
	codecs.
Expert	Allows you to modify and enable any of the 35 Expert alarms. Alarms
	test for discrete conditions at different protocol layers, such as NFS
	retransmissions at the application layer, overload utilization percent-
	ages at the MAC layer, or TCP/IP SYN packets at the transport layer.
	See the chapter on the Expert System for a description of the expert
	alarms.
Application Response	Allows you to modify and enable any of 8 application response time
	alarms. Alarms test for application response times related to applica-
	tion protocols such as SMTP, HTTP, or NFS.
MAC (Ethernet MAC	Allows you to modify and enable any of 21 MAC layer alarms. Alarms
Layer)	test for conditions related to Ethernet conditions such as utilization
	rate, packet size, errors, and frame types.
Token Ring Alarm	Allows you to modify and enable any of 29 Token Ring alarms. Alarms
	test for conditions related to Token Ring conditions such as utilization
	rate, packet size, errors, and frame types.
Network	Allows you to modify and enable any of the 65 Network alarms.
	Alarms test for conditions related to Network Layer conditions, such as
	IP/IPX/ARP packet or octet counts.

Click on the appropriate tab to display the alarm table you want. Each alarm can be used with the default values provided by Surveyor, or you can modify them with the Alarms Editor to precisely meet your resource monitoring needs.

The complete selection of alarms for that type is shown in each tab in the alarm editor. Each line in the table is called an alarm or alarm row. You can add as many alarms as you want in the table.

If a threshold is exceeded for any enabled alarm, an alarm event occurs. The event is reported according to the value configured in the Action field for the alarm row.

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