Browsing root alarms – H3C Technologies H3C Intelligent Management Center User Manual
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Click OK when prompted to confirm deletion.
Browsing root alarms
The Root Alarms list displays all unrecovered, root alarms although you can modify the configuration of
this list to include non-root alarms as well. Through this view, you can view all root alarms, take action,
sort, and query from the Root Alarms view.
In addition, you can view the particular details of an individual alarm, take action on the selected alarm
including recover, acknowledge, delete or annotate an alarm and print or export the individual alarm
details.
Browsing root alarms
To browse root alarms:
1.
Navigate to Root Alarms.
a.
Click the Alarm tab from the tabular navigation system on the top.
b.
Click Alarm Browse on the navigation tree on the left.
c.
Click Root Alarms under Alarm Browse from the navigation system on the left.
IMC displays all root alarm entries in the Root Alarms list displayed in the main pane of the Root
Alarms window.
Root Alarms List
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Level: Contains the Alarm or severity level of the alarm. For more information about Alarm or
severity levels see "
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Source: C
ontains the name and or IP address of the device to which this alarm refers.
This field contains an active link to navigate you to the Device Details page for the source of this
alarm.
Click this link to navigate to details on the source device of this alarm.
Device names and device IP addresses that are grayed out indicate that the alarm is generated by
the IMC server or an unmanaged device.
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Type: Contains the source type of this alarm. For example, if this alarm was generated by a trap, by
IMC, or by a Syslog entry.
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Information: Contains a description of the condition that triggered this alarm.
This field contains an active link to navigate you to the Alarm Details page for this alarm. The
Alarm Details page provides more detailed information for each alarm. For more information
about the Alarm Details page, see "
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Time: Contains the time stamp for IMC receipt of this alarm condition.
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Root: indicates whether or not the alarm is a root alarm or a symptom alarm. IMC can distinguish
between an event that is a symptom of another error condition on the network versus an event that
signifies the root error condition. The value "root" in the Root field indicates that the condition being
alarmed on is a root error condition and not a symptom. The value "symptom" in the Root field
indicates that the condition being alarmed on is the symptom of another error condition.
You can sort the Root Alarms list by any field. Click the column label. The down arrow key
appears. Click the down arrow key
to view a list of display options for the selected column.
Display options include Sort Ascending and Sort Descending. You can also select which columns
you want displayed by clicking the Columns field. You can also group the Root Alarms table by the
selected field. You can disable and enable the group option.