Specifications

SPECTRUM Software Release Notes Page 107
SpectroWATCH
The Watch Manager and Watch Editor applications provide you with a mechanism for
easily adding thresholds and logging historical data without having to program new
modules or modify standard Generic Information Block (GIB) views. These
applications allow selected elements to be monitored at a higher level of detail while
providing data to be used with other tools used in network analysis.
Watches allow selected elements in SPECTRUM, such as a router, to be monitored
with a high level of detail while providing fresh and current data to be used with other
SPECTRUM tools in network analysis.
You can dynamically apply watches on any type of attribute, log historical values of
attributes, and monitor attributes against thresholds to generate events and alarms.
Known SpectroWATCH Anomalies in
SPECTRUM 6.0.2
Problem 1: Watches which produce a result that is greater than a 32-bit
integer cause an error message to appear in the watch’s Status in Watch
Editor which reads:
Failed - Overflow in binaryoperator. ,
and the message,
Failed in the Performance ViewÕs Value column.
This problem affects watches derived from the Packet_Rate, Error_Rate,
and Discard_Rate attributes, respectively. Each of these watches also use
the Total_Packets_Delivered attribute.
Solution: This problem will be corrected in a future release of
SPECTRUM.
Problem 2: On the Solaris platform, if more than 34 models are selected
before WatchManager and WatchEditor are invoked, you cannot see all of
the models in the Jump menu.
Solution: This problem will be corrected in a future release of
SPECTRUM.