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The Alarm Severity Config. command manages the alarm transmission and their severity.
Operations
Verify the severity and the enabling/forwarding status of the alarms Enable/disable an alarm
Enable/disable the forwarding of the trap of an alarm Change the severity of an alarm
GUI
Alarm Severity Config. contextual area
See also
Alarms management (info)
Verify the severity and the enabling/forwarding status of the alarms
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1. Select Main > Alarm Severity Config.
The Alarm Severity Config. contextual area displays the alarms configuration.
Enable/disable an alarm
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1. Select Main > Alarm Severity Config.
2. Select the alarm and press Edit Alarm Config or double click on the alarm.
3. Set the Severity parameter, selecting:
• Disable, to disable the alarm.
• Status, Warning, Minor, Major or Critical to enable the alarm. Select the option relevant to the severity to be assigned to the alarm
4. Press Ok.
The settings are reported in the Alarm Severity Config. contextual area. The symbol [*] is displayed next to the name of the changed alarm.
5. Press Apply and confirm.
Enable/disable the forwarding of the trap of an alarm
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WARNING It is possible to change the forwarding status of the trap only if it has been enabled the alarm (see Enable/disable an alarm).
1. Select Main > Alarm Severity Config.
2. Select the alarm and press Edit Alarm Config or double click on the alarm.
3. Set the Trap parameter, selecting:
• Enable, to enable the forwarding of the alarm trap to the management system.
• Disable, to disable the forwarding of the alarm trap to a possible management system external to the equipment (for example NMS5UX-B/NMS5LX).
4. Press Ok.
The settings are reported in the Alarm Severity Config. contextual area. The symbol [*] is displayed next to the name of the changed alarm.
5. Press Apply and confirm.
Change the severity of an alarm
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1. Select Main > Alarm Severity Config.
2. Select the alarm and press Edit Alarm Config or double click on the alarm.
3. Set the Severity parameter, selecting the severity you wish to associate to the alarm: Status, Warning, Minor, Major or Critical.
If the alarm was disabled (Disable option selected), the selection of a different option, besides modify-ing the alarm severity, automatically enables it.
4. Press Ok.
The settings are reported in the Alarm Severity Config. contextual area. The symbol [*] is displayed next to the name of the changed alarm.
5. Press Apply and confirm.
Alarm Severity Config. contextual area
The contextual area displays the alarms configuration.
Alarms are subdivided into groups.
When contextual area is opened, only the groups are displayed (Group/Alarm column).
To expand and compress the list of alarms associated to a group, select the symbol next to the name of the group. Every selection of the symbol makes the list assumes the status complementary to the pre-vious one (if compress it is expanded and vice versa).
When a group is expanded, for every alarm is displayed the characteristics.
The groups and the alarms change according to the equipment configuration.
Parameters
Group/Alarm. Alarm name.
A colour box is before the name, pointing out the alarm status and severity:
• White box with red X. Alarm disabled.
• Green box. Alarm enabled with severity equivalent to a status signal.
• Light blue box. Alarm enabled with Warning severity.
• Yellow box. Alarm enabled with Minor severity.
• Orange box. Alarm enabled with Major severity.
• Red box. Alarm enabled with Critical severity.
The presence of an asterisk [*] between the box and the alarm name shows that at least one characteristic of the alarm has been changed.
Severity. Enabling status of the alarm and, if it is enabled, the relevant severity:
• Disabled. Alarm disabled.
• Status. Alarm enabled with severity equivalent to a status signal.
• Warning, Minor, Major or Critical. Alarm enabled with severity respectively Warning, Minor, Major or Critical.
• Not available in this SW version. Alarm not supported by the current firmware version present into the equipment controller.
Trap Notification. Forwarding status of the trap:
• Enabled. The transmission of the alarm trap to the management system is enabled.
• Disabled. The transmission of the alarm trap to a possible external management sys-tem is disabled (for example NMS5UX-B/NMS5LX).
• ---. Information not meaningful because the alarm is disabled.
Push-button
Apply. Confirm the changes.
Refresh. Update the context.
Help. Open the help on-line.
Edit Alarm Config. Enable/disable an alarm, Enable/disable the forwarding of the trap of an alarm or Change the severity of an alarm
See also
Alarm Severity Config. (command) Alarms management (info)
Alarms management (info)
The term alarm defines the fault signal generated by an error or malfunction of the equipment or of any component that composes it.
The signals referring to any event that does not indicates a malfunction but a status change, an operation in progress or an operating indication are defined status signals.
The term event defines every signal of status, detected alarm and cleared alarm.
A maximum of 500 events are recorded in the equipment controller. When this limit is exceeded, each new event will overwrite the oldest event.
Displaying alarms
The list of the current alarms is indicates in the Equipment status area.
Enabling/disabling alarms
The equipment alarms can be disabled and re-enabled by the user according to the needs.
Disabling an alarm means that, on the detection of the alarm itself, this is not registered in the equipment controller and, as consequence, is not communicated to a possible management pro-gram: as the alarm had never occurred.
On the contrary, enabling an alarm (default condition) means that, when the alarm is detected, this is registered in the equipment controller and, if the forwarding of the relevant trap is ena-bled (see next item), the alarm is communicated to the management system and displayed in the current alarms and the history alarms.
WARNING The enabling/disabling of the alarm is independent for each alarm and local to the equipment which the operation is executed for. This means that the setting must be executed for each alarm of each equipment.
Enabling/disabling traps
The trap is a message (in this case of detection or clearing of an alarm) spontaneously sent by the equipment to a possible external management system, for example NMS5UX-B/NMS5LX.
The forwarding of the trap of each alarm can be disabled and re-enabled by the user according to his own needs.
Disabling a trap means that, on the detection of the alarm, this is not registered in the equip-ment controller and, as consequence, is not communicated to a possible manageequip-ment program.
On the contrary, enabling a trap (default condition) means that, on the detection of the alarm, this is registered in the equipment controller and communicated to the management system, which displays it in the current alarms and the history alarms.
WARNING The enabling/disabling of the forwarding of the trap is independent for each alarm and local to the equipment which the operation is executed for. This means that the setting must be executed for each alarm of each equipment.
Alarm severity
Each alarm acknowledged and managed by the local management program has an associated severity which determinates the importance of the alarm.
This severity is not fixed, but can be changed by the user as he likes.
Alarms log
With log of the equipment alarms we mean the list of the status and alarm signals currently ac-tive on the equipment (current alarms) and the signals memorized in the equipment controller (alarm history).
WEB LCT allows to Save the log of the equipment alarms and to Delete the log of the equipment alarms.
See also
Alarm Severity Config. (command) Alarm Severity Config. contextual area