Users Guide

Alarms | Alarms, Events, and Automation
OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide 285
For example, hover over an alarm’s entity name and the tooltip displays the alarm’s Date Opened,
the Entity Name, any alarm Message, Event Name, Alarm and Entity Type, its status as Service
Affecting, Notification OID, Equipment, Severity, whether the alarm was Suppressed, or
Acknowledged and the Device IP.
Hover over the
Device IP Address column, and a tooltip appears with information about the alarm
source’s Model, Vendor, Management State, Discovery Date, and Description, with a title bar that
indicates whether the device is running or not
. Such tooltips elsewhere also include other device-
dependent items. For example, bar graphs to display the % CPU [utilization], % Memory, and
Description..
By default, the chart appears only when alarms exist. See
Alarms Menu on page 288 for details
about menu items available when you right-click in the summary and expanded portlets.
The following columns appear in this screen by default:
Severity —The alarm severity indicated by the color of the leftmost icon. The severity only has
meaning for Alarms and Security Alarms. Informational Alarms get a severity level of
Indeterminate. Closed alarms appear without color.
Date Opened —The date the alarm appeared.
Entity Name —The entity emitting this alarm (often within the Equipment).
DeviceIP —The IP address of the equipment where the alarm appeared.
Event Name —The event associated with the alarm.
Message —The message associated with the alarm.
Open the
Settings > Columns screen to see additional possibilities for columns.
If an alarm is
Service Affecting, (reflect an impact on a service) it propagates to appear as
components of service- and customer-related alarms. The Service Affecting alarm column in this
portlet does not appear by default. To see an alarm’s propagation, show that column in the
Using
Extended Event Definitions
portlet, where it is concealed by default.
NOTE:
You can select multiple rows in the Alarms portlet and the Managed Resources portlet. Many other
columns are available, including those related to suppression, region, any parent alarm, and so on.