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NMS300 Network Management System Application
Manage Alarms and Logs User Manual175
View and manage alarms, triggers, and
notification profiles
The application provides many default alarms, including status alarms, monitor alarms, and
trap alarms. If an upper or lower threshold is exceeded, an alarm configuration generates an
alarm.
You can view and manage the current alarms, and you can view and manage the alarm
history
. You can also add custom alarm configurations that are based on existing
configuration monitors.
One or more optional alarm notification profiles let you specify criteria that enable the
application to generate and send a notification email message if an alarm occurs.
The application provides the following four severity levels for alarms:
Critical (by default, red color indication)
Major (by default, yellow color indication)
Minor (by default, blue color indication)
Info (by default, no color indication)
The following sections describe the alarm-related tasks:
View and manage current alarms
View and manage the alarm history
View and manage alarm configurations
Add a custom alarm configuration
Modify an alarm configuration
View and manage alarm notification profiles
Add or modify an alarm notification profile
Customize alarm colors
View and manage current alarms
The Current Alarms table shows the active alarms for the entire network. You can
acknowledge alarms, display details about alarms, clear alarms, and export alarms.
To view and manage the current alarms:
1. Open a browser and connect to the application through the static IP address of the
NMS300 server
.
For more information, see
Log in to the application on page 21.
A login window opens.