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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 66
Events that
Change Proxy
Agent States
The color of a Proxy Agent icon changes when polling events or trap events
indicate a change in the Proxy Agent alarm status.
Proxy Agent icon states change when OpenView polls a Proxy Agent and
receives one of the unacceptable results identified in the table below.
If the icon is in the
New state and a subsequent poll finds an acceptable response,
the icon returns to the
Normal state.
Table 6. Polling changes for Proxy Agent icon alarm states
Result of poll Default polling
interval (min)
New State
AlarmForward = Failed 5 Major
Proxy Agent does not exist or does not respond 5 Unknown