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Cisco AlarmTracker Client User Guide

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Chapter 1 AlarmTracker Client Introduction

Overview

Table 1-1 State Values in Order of Increasing Severity

Thus, the state for an Attribute is determined by taking the maximum value of the

states in the set.

Each node has two major properties which define its overall state:

• The value of its State Attribute

• The roll up of the assignment statuses for all Alarm objects for the node and

(possibly) its children

Each node is displayed with two icons that represent this overall state. The state

icon displays the value of the State Attribute and is shown as the right icon for a

Tree View node. The Assignment Status icon which represents the roll up of the

assignment statuses for all Alarm objects for the node and (possibly) its children.

This is the left icon for a Tree View node.

The State Attribute of a node is determined by three things:

• The roll up of the state of all Attributes associated with that node

• The roll up of the State Attribute of all child nodes

• The rule that defines how the roll up of child node states should be done

The roll up of a set of states is defined as the most severe state in the set. Thus,

the roll up of a set of states can be determined by taking the maximum value of

the states in the set. The icons associated with these states are described in Node

State Icon, page 7-1.

The rule that defines how a child node state rolls up to its parent is defined by the

OID Nodes in the configuration tables in the Alarms Database. There are three

possibilities for how a node processes relapse from its children:

• None - The node ignores state roll up notifications from its children (this is

rarely used).

State Value

Unknown

-1

Application Error

Partial Impaired

Down