User's Manual

Managing Alarms
Page 260 FlexWave Prism Host, Remote and EMS 5.1 System Reference
© 2009 ADC Telecommunications, Inc ADCP-77-073 • Issue 2 • 11/2009
11.3 MASKING AN ALARM TYPE
Masking an alarm type causes the EMS to stop reporting alarms of that type until the
alarm is unmasked. By default all alarms are unmasked. When an alarm type is
masked (mask status enabled), the following is true:
•• The corresponding status indicator shows in gray.
•• The alarm state is not calculated into the higher level alarm summary
•• The corresponding trap is not sent to SNMP managers.
To mask an alarm:
11 To access the EMS Menu bar, in the Function Explorer Tree, click on
System View
to
display a system view.
22 In the EMS Menu bar, select
Alarm Management
.
The
Alarm Management Tabl
e window opens.
Only a user logged in under the admin or a Network Manager account can change Prism
system settings t
hrough the EMS.