Owner's Manual

NMS200 Portlets
52
ProSafe Network Management Software NMS200
The alarm display includes the following columns:
• 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.
• Date Opened
— The date the alarm appeared.
• Entity Name — The entity emitting this alarm (often within the Equipment).
• DeviceIP — Th
e IP address of the equipment where the alarm appeared.
• 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 Notification
OID, Date Opened, the Entity Name and type, its Impact Propagation, its
status as Service Effecting), Event Name, Equipment, Severity, any
alarm Message, 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 Topology on page 95 for a description of how alarms appear in the topology
portlet.