Specifications

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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.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.
Corrected SpectroWATCH Anomalies in
SPECTRUM 6.5
1 You can now see all of the models in the Jump menu on the Solaris
platform when more than 34 models are selected before
WatchManager and WatchEditor are invoked.
Known SpectroWATCH Anomalies in
SPECTRUM 6.5
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 View’s Value column.
This problem affects watches derived from the Packet_Rate,