Specifications

Overview
New Features in SPECTRUM 6.0
Software Release Notes Page 33
User-defined Columns
Users can now specify up to three user-defined columns. You can name
the column and choose the attribute to be displayed. Data must be
entered and EAM restarted for the column to be displayed.
New View For Alarm Management
A new view, the Alarm Management view, has been created to allow users
to control some aspects of Alarm Management. This view is accessed
through the Landscape Configuration view by double-clicking AlarmMgmt
in the Configure/Information list box. The Alarm Management view
contains the following options that the user can modify:
• Generate Alarm Events: This option enables/disables the generation
of alarm change events such as when alarms are generated, updated,
and cleared. It is set to "enabled" by default.
• Add Events To Alarms: This option controls whether alarm events
are added to each alarm. If disabled, the result is that "alarm change
events" are not displayed in the Events tab of the Alarm Manager. This
option is set to "disabled" by default.
• Use Old Alarm Events: In previous versions of SPECTRUM, specific
events were generated for each alarm characteristic that could be
modified (such as "status" or "assignment"). In SPECTRUM 6.0, a
single event type is used to indicate a change to any alarm
characteristic. Enabling this option causes older-style to be generated
when the alarm status or assignment is updated allowing for scripts
that rely on the old events to be run. This option is disabled by default.
• Disable Initial Alarms / Disable Suppressed Alarms / Disable
Maintenance Alarms: These options control whether model condition
changes (Initial, Suppressed, and Maintenance) cause alarms to be
generated. Since these conditions can potentially cause a flood of
alarms, disabling these options improves system performance. They
are disabled by default.