Alarm Properties – History
Purpose
The Alarm Properties dialog is used to view the details of a particular NE alarm record in the alarm history.
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Alarm Properties: History
Mandatory entries
Not applicable.
Optional entries
Not applicable.
Informational content
Alarm Id | The format is “NE_name:index”. The index is incremented for each new alarm in the NE, normally providing a unique identification. The index is reset to 1 if the NE is deleted and recreated. |
Localisation | The unit name, its card slot, and the layer-subunit identification. |
Fault Cause | A text describing the type of alarm. The layer-subunit identification given in the localization also has to be considered. |
Severity | The Severity of the alarm. |
Alarm Type | One of the five categories each alarm has been assigned to: Communication, Equipment, Environmental, Processing or Quality. |
Alarm On Time | The time when the NE registered the alarm. The date and time in brackets indicate when FOXMAN‑UN received the alarm. |
Alarm Off Time | The time when the NE registered the clearance of the alarm. The date and time in brackets indicate when FOXMAN‑UN received the “alarm cleared” message. |
Alarm On/Off Ack Time | The date and time when a new or a cleared alarm was acknowledged plus the respective user name. |
Ack’d By | User name that acknowledged the alarm. |
Controls (buttons, menu items, etc.)
? Help | Starts the FOXMAN‑UN help viewer and opens this page. |
OK | Closes the dialog. |
Related dialogs / windows
Alarm History dialog.