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Fault management

7302-7330/5523 operator part 1 section K

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Objectives
After completing this section, youll be able to:
Describe how alarms are handled by the AWS
retrieve a list of all the current alarms (NE or object level)
Perform actions on a alarm (acknowledge, )
describe the different actions that can be performed on an alarm
retrieve detailed information of a specific alarm
overrule the alarm reporting mode on the ISAM for a specific port

Alarm Management - General (1/2)

Current Alarms Management

real-time treatment
overall alarm status of NE
dynamically updated

Historical Alarms Management

AS Current USM (CAL)

CURRENT
ALARMS
(Current AS-IM)

consultation of:
historical alarms
alarms that havent been in CAL

EML-IM

Archive

AS Historical USM (HA

HISTORICAL
ALARMS
(Historical AS-IM)

Alarm Management General (2/2)

AS USM (CAL USM or HAL USM):
sublists
counters

Obtain detailed information

Alarm Sublist Window
More Information Window

AS-USM

Counter
Summary
Window

Alarm
Sublist
Window

Perform action on current alarm:

e.g acknowledge, purge
More
Information
Window

Launch CAL (1/2)

Main menu Alarms
CAL counter summary window opens
up

Main menu Administration

Application Alarms
CAL counter summary window opens
up

AWS
APL. MGR

Application
Alarms

Launch CAL (2/2) Create sublists on the fly

Via ANEL
ANEL

View
Show
Alarms

sublist for the selected NE

Via EML-USM
sublists for:
NE
selected object:
Rack
Subrack
Board
Physical port
Logical port (ATM
TP)

EML-USM

View
Show
Alarms
On NE
On object

Counter Summary Window

Display statistics on alarms.
Sublists (filter criteria)
pre-defined (CAL)
or created by operator

Alarm counters
severity level
status
new alarm(s)
occured since the
last selection of the
sublist

Information
box

Predefined
sublists
Additional
sublists created
by operator
Indicator field

Alarm Sublist

Groups alarms according to filtering criteria

pre-defined sublists
sublists defined by user

Allows you to work on a subset of alarms

Rightclick on alarm perform action on alarm

Sublist Alarm
summary
Alarm
details

More information window

Double click on alarm more alarm information

helpful for locating and diagnosing the problem

Incoming Alarm Routing

When the alarm is CLEARED and

ACKed (Auto-ACK is possible)

When the alarm is PURGED
(Auto-purge is possible)

ALARM
Curr.
AS IM

CAL USM

Sublists
(USM)

ALARM
Alarm

If the alarm severity > ASAM severity

NE1
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HAL USM

Sublists
(USM)

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