User Guide

Chapter 1 AlarmTracker Client Introduction
Overview
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Nodes
Each node displayed in the Tree View (and in the List Views of the Main View)
represents some kind of object (e.g., a customer, a product, a device) and has a
parent-child relationship with other nodes.
Node Attributes
Part of the functionality provided by the LGMapper Server is the mapping of
Alarm objects to a specific node and Attribute in this object hierarchy. The
mapping process involves the examination of the information contained in the
Listener Event along with the Listener object name to map the Alarm object to an
Attribute of an instance of a node.
An Attribute is defined as some property of a node. For example, for an ICM
Logger node, a number of Attributes are defined: Auto purge In Progress, Free
Space Used, Log Space Used, NM Ping, Node Manager, Out of Space, and State
Transfer.
There are a number of Rules that define the mapping of Listener Events to these
Attributes. These Rules also define how to determine the instance name of the
node to which the Event is mapped.
All nodes have at least one attribute called the State Attribute. The State Attribute
represents the overall state of the node itself.
States
In AlarmTracker Client, every attribute has the concept of a state. The state of an
Attribute is driven by the state of the Alarm object(s) that apply to it. For an
Attribute that has more than one Alarm that applies to it, its state is determined
from the most severe state in the set. Refer to Table 1-1 for State values in order
of increasing severity.