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Cisco Active Network Abstraction Fault Management User Guide, Version 3.6 Service Pack 1
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Fault Management Overview
This chapter describes the challenge of managing an overabundance of events, and introduces some of
the key concepts of Cisco ANA alarm management.
Managing Events—Describes how to manage events effectively.
Basic Concepts and Terms—Describes the basic concepts and terms used throughout this guide.
Severity Propagation—Describes the concept of severity, and how severity is propagated.
Event Processing Overview—Describes the process for identifying and processing raw events.
Managing Events
The challenge of dealing effectively with events and alarms is to know how to understand and efficiently
process and organize bulks of raw events that may be generated as a result of single root cause events.