HP 480-0005-00-15 Monitor Alarms, How to Read Alarms, 1Alarm Fields and Definitions Valid Entry

Chapter 7: System Alarms

Monitor Alarms

Alarms are brief text messages that appear on your workstation when the Tenor CMS unit encounters a prob- lem, such as a failed interface, disconnected call, etc. You can reach the Alarm Manager via Command Line Interface (CLI) alarm monitoring system.

How to Read Alarms

The Alarm Manager reports alarms according to criteria such as the alarm’s severity level, line number the alarm occurred on, channel number, etc. There are two alarm types displayed: Active Alarms and Alarm His- tory. An Active Alarm list displays all the alarms still active on the system; these alarms have not been cleared or deleted. An Alarm History is a list of the last 100 alarms stored in the system since the last time you per- formed a delete operation.

Definitions for all generated alarm fields appear in Table 7-1.

Table 7-1Alarm Fields and Definitions

Field	Definition	Valid Entry
IP #	The unit’s IP address (32 bit	Example:192.168.1.34.
	address).
Sequence #	Internal number used to identify	01, 02, 03, etc.
	alarms.
Type (displays only if you gener-	The type of alarm generated.	ALR = Alarm. This indicates an
ate an Alarm History)		active alarm. CLR= Clear. This
		indicates an alarm that has been
		cleared from the system.
		RPT= Report. This indicates that
		the alarm has been generated for
		a report. This entry is for internal
		use only; if you see a report that
		is causing problems, contact cus-
		tomer service.
Severity	Level or alarm severity.	1 = Critical (complete system is
		affected).
		2 = Major (major problem is
		detected).
		3 = Minor (minor problem is
		detected).
		4 = Info (Information about a
		minor problem).
Description	A text description of the alarm;	Varies.
	see Table 7-2for detailed descrip-
	tion.
Slot #	Defines which slot the alarm	Slot 1 through 14 (CMS)
	occurred on.	Slot 1 through 8 (CMS960)
		Slot 1 or 2 (CMS240)

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