Specifications

My Network Configuration
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Faults
The Faults feature provides alerting and event monitoring by displaying network event summaries and
alerts (as dashboard views) to identify faulty devices. Reports can be optionally generated based on
different event alert criteria.
The Faults screen is partitioned into two tabs supporting the following:
● Alarms on page 64
● Events on page 66
Alarms and events are graphically displayed by both severity and category. Severity and category
information can be optionally displayed in pie chart, column chart and grid formats. Optionally, move
your cursor over the graphic to display alarms and events based on percentage of total (pie chart) or
number out of total (column chart). This is a significant enhancement over previous releases, as
administrators can now visually assess the severity of alarms and events in respect to the total number
of other existing events of both greater or lessor severity.
Administrators can now refine how alarms and events are filtered for display and manipulation.
Alarms and events can both now be filtered (displayed) daily, over the last three days, over the last
seven days or all events and alarms can be displayed. This helps refine how data is trended in respect
to any or all events or alarms.
Alarms
WMS uses an Alarm Correlator for correlating events into alarms. The WMS alarms functionality
provides an automated action at various levels of the event flow. Alarm policies are defined using a
configuration file based on device type. The Alarm Correlator defines the logic for generating policy-
based alarms and alerts by reading policies from a configuration file for the affected device.
Once an alarm has been raised and reviewed, a WMS user can “own” the alarm. When this occurs, this
user is letting other WMS users know they have recognized the alarm and efforts are underway to
remedy this specific alarm. Alarms can also be cleared and deleted as needed.
To display alarms raised by WMS events and take t appropriate action:
1 Select the Faults tab from within the My Networks menu item.
The Alarms tab displays by default.