Web Client Guide

Alarms | Key Portlets 101
Event Name —The event associated with the alarm.
Tip
If you hover the cursor over a row in the portlet
display, a tooltip appears with information
about the alarm. This can include the alarm’s
Date Opened, the Entity Name, any alarm
Message, Event Name, Alarm and Entity Type,
its status as Service Effecting, Notification OID,
Equipment, Severity, whether the alarm was
Suppressed, or Acknowledged and the Device
IP.
If an alarm is Service Effecting, (reflect an
impact on a service) it can propagate to appear
as components of service- and link-related
alarms. Service-effecting alarms are of
indeterminate or greater severity.
See Alarms in Visualizations / Topologies on page 219 for a description of how alarms appear in the
topology portlet. The next section (Expanded Alarm Portlet) describes alarm actions and
additional alarm capabilities.
Configuring the Alarms Chart
Turn the chart on or off in the Settings screen’s Chart
Options
panel. If no data exists for the chart and the
Chart option is on, the portlet returns to “no-chart”
mode.
When you enable the chart Filtering is disabled since the
chart, in effect, provides the filter. When the chart is
disabled then filtering options are available.
Settings are saved if you have Admin rights or the Portlet
is on your Public / Private pages (like standard behavior).
NOTE:
Changes appear after you click Apply. The Filter panel
disappears when you check the Show Chart checkbox.