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DEFINITY Performance Management User Guide, Release 2.0, 585-229-808
3 NMS Alerts
Introduction
Issue 1
November 1998
Page 63
Introduction
The Network Management System When Performance Management performs a
data collection, or when the Network Management System (NMS) performs a poll,
the NMS color-codes managed node icons to identify alerts for those managed
nodes.
When the NMS polls Proxy Agents and discovers an alarm for a Proxy Agent, the
NMS color-codes the associated Proxy Agent icons to reflect alarm states.
Performance Management comes with the facility to notify you by pager or by
email when alerts occur. You may also install the add-on software, TeleAlert or
Remedy to provide more notifcation capabilities.
This chapter describes the:
• Icon states for Proxy Agents
• Icon states for managed nodes
• Alert notification methods