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Setting Up Fault Management Retrieval of Alarms during (Re)Discovery (Telesis MAP Devices Only)
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AlliedView NMS Administration Guide
9.10 Retrieval of Alarms during (Re)Discovery (Telesis MAP Devices
Only)
9.10.1 Overview
Prior to release 6.0, the (re)discovery process included establishing communication and transferring configuration
information, but did not include alarm processing.
In release 6.0, a feature,
Alarm Retrieval During (Re)Discovery, allows the administrator to have alarm retrieval included during
(re)discovery. When activated, at the end of (re)discovery, the following occurs:
• Alarms are retrieved using CLI (currently)
• The alarms are parsed and converted to events
• These events are processed by Alarm Management and therefore can be parsed, filtered, customized, and have other
actions associated with them.
• After processing, they are added to the AlliedView NMS database so that they can be included in the Events and Alarms
displays.
If an alarm existed on the device prior to the (re)discovery and the retrieval of the alarms shows the alarm no longer exists,
the AlliedView NMS will show the alarm as cleared.
All alarms displayed by this feature include the text “Retrieved:true” in the message of the event/alert to show that these
were the result of the actions or this feature.
9.10.2 Enable / Disable the Feature (Feature is Optional)
To enable or disable this feature, a script is run that brings up the Retrieve Alarms form.
Note: Administrator (or root) permissions on the NMS machine are required for any changes to succeed.
The script is in the
<NMS_HOME>/bin directory and can run using the command line or a double click:
• For double-click, open the file window <NMS_HOME>/bin directory and double-click on:
• AT_RetrieveAlarmsSetup.bat (Windows)
• AT_RetrieveAlarmsSetup.sh (Solaris)
• For command line, go to the <NMS_HOME>/bin directory and execute:
• AT_RetrieveAlarmsSetup.bat (Windows)
• AT_RetrieveAlarmsSetup.sh (Solaris)
The following dialog is displayed.