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Sonik G2BT Base Transmitter User Manual
March 14, 2002 60 7M487C4
14 ALARMS AND MANAGEMENT
The G2BT includes an SNMP agent allowing remote management and providing the primary
alarm notification mechanism to the NOC. Station configuration, status, and statistics can be
inspected using the SNMP protocol. Configuration parameters can also be set using SNMP.
Current alarm status and station statistics are presented through the SNMP MIB in table form.
Unsolicited alarm messages are delivered to the NOC through SNMP trap messages. Standard
MIB branches for system information, network interfaces, etc. and an ASN.1 MIB file will be
provided defining product specific configuration, statistics, and trap messages.
SNMP trap messages can be delivered to multiple management terminals. An overall SNMP trap
message severity threshold also allows the operator to configure the minimum severity level for
which trap messages will be delivered. This allows system operators to squelch the less
important messages during busy times without having to configure each alarm individually.
A Non-Volatile memory in the BT control module provides storage for XX
hours of station
statistics and numerous log file entries.
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ROCESSING
The G2BT processes alarms based on the parameters set for each given alarm. When an alarm
transition occurs, the status for the given alarm is updated to either a “set” (ACTIVE condition)
or a “clear” (non-ACTIVE condition). A “set” or “clear” counter for the given alarm is
incremented and an associated date/time stamp is saved for this instance.
These parameters can be found as shown below for each alarm under the status and stats
parameter:
Alarm [alarm_name] STATUs = CLEARED
Alarm [alarm_name] STATS Set Timestamp = 1999/07/02 12:29:12
Alarm [alarm_name] STATS Set Count = 20197
Alarm [alarm_name] STATS Clear Timestamp = 1999/07/02 13:10:16
Alarm [alarm_name] STATS Clear Count = 278163
These alarm parameters are updated at every alarm transition instance.