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Retrieval of Alarms during (Re)Discovery (Telesis MAP Devices Only)Enable / Disable the Feature (Feature
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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.
FIGURE 9-21 Retrieve Alarms Form
The following options are available on the retrieve alarms dialog:
• Enable retrieve alarms: When selected it will enable this feature and current alarms on MAP devices will be displayed
during discovery.
• Display retrieved Info alarms: When selected it will enable displaying retrieved alarms that have 'Info' severity. The cur-
rent NMS shows these as Info events only and no Alert is created.
• Maximum alarms retrieved: Number of retrieved alarms (per device) that should be processed and displayed. If this num-
ber is lower than current count of retrieved alarms the lowest severity alarms will be ignored.
After making changes click on OK to apply changes or Cancel to cancel modifications.
9.10.3 Restrictions / Limitations
Since the Alarm Management system uses traps as another source for device alerts, there are the following interactions between
retrieval of alarms through this feature and retrieval of device changes through traps:
• A few of the retrieved alarms do not have enough information to be correlated to the corresponding alarms that were
received through traps.
• A few of the retrieved alarms do not have the corresponding alarms received through traps and also some of the alarms
received through traps do not have the corresponding alarms that can be retrieved from the device.