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Cisco Media Gateway Manager for the Cisco MGX 8260 Media Gateway User Guide
Release 1.0, Part Number 78-11705-01, December 2000
Chapter 6 Fault and Performance Management
Monitoring Alarms and Events
Each object may display the following information about its associated network element:
• Object name
• Object class
• Object state
• Event unacknowledged count
• Event unacknowledged state
• Event outstanding state
Figure 6-2 Information Displayed on an Object
Note The icon displays the most severe event only.
• The icon for the object shows the following information
– An event counter is displayed in the balloon
– A number indicates the number of the most severe events in the category
– A letter indicates the highest unacknowledged event severity in the category
– A plus sign appears if there are other less severe, unacknowledged events in the category.
• The object has a colored outline which shows the event status color.
The colors and codes of severities used in Cisco EMF are shown in Table 7-1.
When the event status of an object changes in the network, the graphical cues change to reflect the new
status.
Object state
(hatching/icons)
Event unacknowledged count
Object name
Object class
(bitmap)
Event unacknowledged
state (color)
Event outstanding
state (outline color
and name color)
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Table 6-1 Alarm Severity Colors and Codes
Icon Color Balloon Code Severity of Event
Red C Critical
Orange MMajor
Yellow mMinor
Cyan W Warning
Green (none) Normal
White i Informational