User Guide

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Cisco AlarmTracker Client User Guide
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Chapter 4 AlarmTracker Client Menus
Tools Menu
Figure 4-5 AlarmTracker Options - Alarms Database Tab
This property page shows the following properties:
• Server - name of the LGMapper server,
• Alarms Objects History (hours) - number of hours of cached Alarm object
history that the LGMapper to maintains. This value controls the number of
closed Alarm objects (records in the database) that the LGMapper maintains.
A higher number means more history is maintained, but it also means that
more disk space is required to store the information. During LGMapper
operation, it will occasionally purge the Alarms database of any closed Alarm
objects whose closed time fall outside the time history window. Note that any
Alarm objects that are still open are never purged.
• Maximum Event Count per Alarm - this value is used to implement a form
of event suppression or filtering to prevent the Alarms database from growing
unbounded. This value limits the total number of Events that can be