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Cisco TV CDS 2.5 ISA Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 5 System Monitoring
System Level Monitoring
Alarms Table
Any time there is an alarmed event, an alarm is displayed in the CDSM banner. The Alarms table is
displayed when you roll your mouse over the alarm icon. See Figure 5-1. Clicking the alarmed event in
the Alarm table takes you to the CDSM page that has more information. For example, in Figure 5-1,
clicking System health problems reported takes you to the System Health page.
Figure 5-1 CDSM Banner—System Health Alarm
The following errors and situations are monitored and registered in the Alarms table if found, and linked
to the System Cleanup page:
• Orphaned server IDs
• Multiple or duplicate Cache Locate IP addresses
• Out of range Group IDs
• ServerMap and StatMap inconsistencies
• Extra or incorrect SERVERMAP15 entries
See the “System Cleanup” section on page 7-23 for more information.
In addition to the System Cleanup page links, the following situations are monitored and registered in
the Alarms table:
• System clock is out of synchronization
• MSA events exist for the current CDSM day
• Incorrect IDs on the Stream Manager (for ISA environments only)
• Missing or incorrect initial IDs (Group, Server, and Setup)
System Clock Not Synchronized
If a CDS server system clock is off from that of the CDSM (VVIM or Stream Manager) by more than
two minutes, an alert is added to the Alarms table. Clicking the alert takes you to the Configure >
System Level > System NTP Server page.
MSA Events
If MSA events exist (System Failures) for the current CDSM day, an alert is added to the Alarms table.
Clicking the alert takes you to the Monitor > System Level > System Failures page.
Incorrect IDs on Stream Manager in ISA environment
If VVI is enabled in an ISA environment and you logged in to the Stream Manager, and if there are errors
associated with the IDs; an alert is added to the Alarms table. Clicking the alert takes you to the
Maintain > Software > ID Manager page.