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DEFINITY Performance Management User Guide, Release 2.0, 585-229-808
3 NMS Alerts
Identify NMS Alerts
Issue 1
November 1998
Page 65
Identify Proxy
Agent Icon
States
Proxy Agent alarms occur when alarm forwarding fails or when an authentication
failure occurs. Because alarms manifest as colored icons, the following section
refers to alarm states as icon states.
Each state of a Proxy Agent icon represents a condition that exists between a
Proxy Agent and a managed node. The NMS platform assigns the names of these
states. The table below describes Proxy Agent icon states that occur in
OpenView.
Table 5. Proxy Agent icon states
OpenView
State Name
Description
Normal The Proxy Agent is communicating with the NMS.
Warning The Proxy Agent is communicating with the NMS but the NMS
received an Authentication Failure trap sent by the Proxy Agent.
Major The Proxy Agent failed to forward alarms to the administered
destination.