Users Guide

Configuration Management Portlets and Editors | Configuration Management
OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide 449
Topology Displays a topology map that includes the selected alarms. See Presentation
Capabilities for more about these maps.
Acknowledge Alarm Acknowledges the selected alarms. The current date and time appear in the Ack
Time field. The checkmark appears in the expanded portlet for acknowledged
alarms.
This option is available when the selected alarms are not acknowledged.
Unacknowledge
Alarm
Unacknowledges previously acknowledged alarms, and clears the entries in the
Ack By and Ack Time fields. When an alarm is not acknowledged, the red icon
appears in the expanded portlet.
This option is available when the selected alarms are acknowledged.
Assign User Assigns selected alarms to one of the users displayed in the sub-menu by selecting
that user. An icon also appears in the expanded portlet indicating the alarm is
assigned to someone.
Clear Alarm Removes the selected alarms from the default alarm view and marks them as a
candidates for the database archiving process (DAP). Clearing alarms is an
indication to the system that the alarms are resolved/addressed. If your system has
propagation policies enabled, clearing recalculates dependent alarms.
Clear Group of
Alarms
Removes a group of alarms from the default alarm view and marks them as
candidates for DAP.
This option is useful when you have many unimportant alarms that you want to
clear at the same time instead of individually. For example, perhaps you want to
clear all alarms that are informational and are more than a week old.
Before selecting this menu item, create a filter for the group of alarms that you
want to clear. When you select Clear Group of Alarms, a list of defined filters
appears. Select the appropriate filter and then click Execute. All open alarms that
meet the filter criteria are cleared.
Caution: The Clear Group of Alarms action is irreversible.
Direct Access Open an SNMP Mib Browser to the alarmed device, a CLI Terminal (Telnet
window) to the alarmed device, or ICMP Ping the device alarmed. Only those
available appear in the subsequent menu.
Email Alarm Opens the Email Alarm window, where you specify a subject and e-mail address to
which you want to mail the alarm’s content, and then click Send Email. Click
Cancel to end this operation without sending e-mail.
SMTP setup is required to e-mail an alarm. See SMTP Configuration on page 54
for instructions about setting up e-mail from OpenManage Network Manager.
Show Performance Shows performance data for the selected interfaces in the Performance Dashboard
window. Click the edit tool to modify the dashboard view properties, entities, or
attributes. See Dashboard Editor on page 429 for more about the editor and its
options.
Aging Policy This lets you select a policy that determines how long the selected alarms remain
in the database. See Implementing DAP on page 73 for information about
configuring such policies.
Edit Custom
Attributes
Opens the Custom Attribute Editor where you define field characteristics, such as
whether it is enabled, the label name, and the tooltip.
View as PDF Creates an Acrobat PDF document containing the selected alarms’ content
displayed in the portlet.
Share with User Opens the Share with User window where you select the colleague you want to
share the selected alarms with and then type your message.
Menu Option Description