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CHAPTER
13-1
Cisco ONS 15454 SDH Reference Manual, R5.0
April 2008
13
Alarm Monitoring and Management
This chapter explains how to manage alarms with Cisco Transport Controller (CTC). To troubleshoot
specific alarms, refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 SDH Troubleshooting Guide. Chapter topics include:
• 13.1 Overview, page 13-1
• 13.2 Documenting Existing Provisioning, page 13-1
• 13.3 Viewing Alarm Counts on the LCD for a Node, Slot, or Port, page 13-2
• 13.4 Viewing Alarms, page 13-3
• 13.5 Alarm Severities, page 13-10
• 13.6 Alarm Profiles, page 13-10
• 13.7 Suppressing Alarms, page 13-14
• 13.8 Provisioning External Alarms and Controls, page 13-15
• 13.9 Audit Trail, page 13-16
13.1 Overview
CTC detects and reports SDH alarms generated by the Cisco ONS 15454 SDH and the larger SDH
network. You can use CTC to monitor and manage alarms at the card, node, or network level. Default
alarm severities conform to the ITU-T G.783 standard, but you can set alarm severities in customized
alarm profiles or suppress CTC alarm reporting. For a detailed description of the standard ITU-T
categories employed by Optical Networking System (ONS) nodes, refer to the Cisco ONS 15454 SDH
Troubleshooting Guide.
Note ONS 15454 SDH alarms can also be monitored and managed through a network management system
(NMS).
13.2 Documenting Existing Provisioning
You can use the File > Print or File > Export options to print or export CTC provisioning information
for record keeping or troubleshooting. The functions can be performed in card, node, or network views.
The File > Print function sends the data to a local or network printer. File > Export exports the data to a
file where it can be imported into other computer applications, such as spreadsheets and database
management programs.