Manual Part 3

Using Alarm Overview to View and Acknowledge Alarms Section 3

Element Management System (EMS) 4.0 User Manual

3.8 Using Alarm Overview to View and Acknowledge Alarms

Using the AlarmOverview window, shown in Figure 26, you can:

• Identify any network element that is currently reporting an alarm.

• Determine whether any alarm (currently reported or already cleared)

has not been acknowledged.

• Acknowledge any as yet unacknowledged alarm.

Figure 26. Alarm Overview Example

“Acknowledging” an alarm, as an EMS task, is a simple matter of clicking on the

appropriate indicator and then on the subsequent dialog. However, as the dialog

advises, this process also should involve checking the NOC-NEM scrollout to

determine what caused the alarm condition.

Alarm status and alarm acknowledgement are reported using two different types

of indicators:

• ALARM STATUS Indicator—always present in the display,

immediately to the right of the host or remote sitename, indicates

whether that host or remote is currently reporting any alarm.