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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
Event Browser Display
The event status of objects contained in a map can affect the event status of the parent icon. In other
words, if the event status changes on a map object, this is propagated to the parent icon. The event status
is changed to reflect the most severe event of its children.
In Cisco EMF, when a condition (fault) occurs on a managed object, the system is notified immediately.
This notification is shown as an event and can be viewed with the Cisco EMF Event Browser. The Event
Browser is opened from the Cisco EMF Launchpad. A window similar to Figure 6-3 is displayed.
Figure 6-3 Cisco EMF Event Browser Window
The Event Browser provides a tool to manage the network efficiently; you can list, query, and sort all or
some events according to how you want to manage the network. Services can be invoked on events so
faults can be attended to from the window that shows the event.
Note You can also view events on Cisco EMF maps; however, only the most severe fault on a
managed object is shown on the map icon.
The main panel in the Event Browser window displays a list of events including:
• Object name (the managed resource name)
• Time the event was raised
• Severity of the event (color-coded), refer to the “Alarm Severity Colors and Codes” section on
page 6-3
• Description of the event