User`s guide

Monitoring Devices
5-5
7800-A2-GB26-80
May 1999
Each entry within the Event Browser dialog presents the following information:
H Severity of the alarm or event, where color indicates severity level:
Normal – Green
Warning – Cyan
Minor – Yellow
Major – Orange
Critical – Red
H Date and time of the alarm or event
H Name of the network element where the alarm or event originated
H Description of the alarm or event
Because devices have alarms and events that differ from those of OpenView, the
DCE Manager provides its own mapping for alarm and events. See
Mapping DCE
Manager Alarms and Events within OpenView
on page 5-6 and Understanding
Paradyne Formats Used in the Event Browser Dialog on page 5-7 for more
information.
When an alarm is received from a device, the status color of a device icon in the
OpenView submap is also updated as described in
Obtaining Device Status
through Color on page 5-2.
NOTE:
Problem: Occasionally, a rare condition is encountered within the DCE
Manager when a new device or card is added to the network. This occurs
when a device or card that has been configured properly is not discovered by
the DCE Manager and a SNMP trap event is issued that generates an Event
Log entry. The entry that is generated may not reflect the true severity level
(color) for the device or card on the IP Status Map. Propagation of the correct
status color to the submap device icons is also affected.
Workaround: If the device is discovered by the DCE Manager software and
it is displayed on the IP Status Map, the severity status color can be
synchronized by resetting the device or card as described in
Resetting
Devices and DSL Cards
in Chapter 3, Administering Devices .