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MAS fault management
Nortel Media Application Server 6.0 for AS 5300
Fundamentals
NN44470-100 01.01 Standard
Release 6.0 03 June 2008
Copyright © 2008, Nortel Networks
Every alarm is assigned one of the following severities:
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Critical
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Major
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Minor
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Warning
Optionally, you can configure alarms to be sent as SNMP traps when alarms
are raised or cleared, which is described in
network management station can use SNMP to poll the platform to determine
which alarms are active.
To view active alarms, use the Nortel MAS Console. The following table
describes the information that you can view for each alarm.
Field
Description
Alarm ID
A globally unique identifier assigned to the alarm. In addition a
colored icon represents the alarm severity. Red indicates Critical
and yellow represents all other alarms.
Name
Descriptive text associated with the alarm.
Severity
The severity of the alarm, which can be one of the following (listed
from most to least severe): Critical, Major, Minor, and Warning.
Timestamp
Timestamp of when the alarm was raised. You can configure
timestamps to display as either local time or UTC time. UTC time
is useful for correlating alarms with events in other time zones.
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