Quick Start Manual

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Alarms
Alerts about network performance issues can include alarms about the following:
• Excessive interface utilization
• Unexpectedly high CPU load
• Loss of available memory
• Slow response time
• Excessive interface errors
When you receive an alarm you can take any of the following action on the alarm itself, or the
target of the alarm:
•Assign User
•Acknowledge Alarm
• Unacknowledge Alarm
• Clear Alarm
•Show Performance
Follow these steps to get started:
1 Click to go to the Alarms page from the default screens.
2 In the Alarms portlet, click on an Alarm of interest.
Tip
If your Alarms portlet displays a graph of different alarm types, clicking on s particular alarm severity
filters the list below to only display that severity. Click again to undo the filter effect.
3 Right-click on the selected alarm, and then click Acknowledge Alarm to take ownership of the
alarm.