Active Alarms

The Active Alarms page displays all alarms for managed customers. Management includes performing actions such as deleting, acknowledging, and saving alarms to file, as well as monitoring active alarms in the network to determine network health.

Customers can monitor authentication failure alarms with the Live Platform server connection.

To view Active alarms:
1. In the Menu bar, choose Alarms and then select the Active tab.

Select an alarm to display the Active Details for the alarm.

The Active Alarms Details pane displays detailed SNMP information for the alarm.

Use the following table as a reference.

Parameter

Description

Severity

This value is displayed from the variablebinding tgTrapGlobalsSeverity. One of the following values:

Critical
Major
Minor
Warning
Indeterminate
Clear

Received Date and Time

The date and time when the alarm was raised.

Source

The source management object upon which the alarm was raised. This value is displayed from the variable-binding tgTrapGlobalsSource.

Name

The alarm category: alarm name. The bell is used to distinguish an alarm to an event.

Unique ID

The unique REST ID of the alarm.

Alarm category

Alarm type according to ITU X.733 definition. This value is displayed from the variable-binding tgTrapGlobalsType.

Probable Cause

Alarm probable cause according to ITU X.733 definition. This value is displayed from the variable-binding tgTrapGlobalsProbableCause.

Description

Hard-coded short description of the alarm.

Additional information Additional information fields provided by management entity, depending on the specific scenario. These values are displayed from tgTrapGlobalsAdditionalInfo1, tgTrapGlobalsAdditionalInfo2 and tgTrapGlobalsAdditionalInfo3 fields.

Entity Info

Entity Name

Short Customer Name.

IP Address

IP address of the managed entity.

Source

Source of the managed entity in the following format: OVOC Category of the managed entity/Link.

SNMP Info

Trap OID

NOTIFICATION-TYPE OID as it appears in the MIB.

Trap Remote Port

SNMP trap listening port on the OVOC server.

Trap Community

SNMPV2 Trap Community string. Default-public

Trap SNMP Version

SNMP Trap Version: SNMPv2

Active Alarms can be saved to a CSV file. A CSV file is generated which you can save to your PC.

Graphical user interface, text, application, email

Description automatically generated

Graphical user interface

Description automatically generated with medium confidence

From the Actions drop-down, select Stop Auto Refresh to stop the automatic refreshing of the Active Alarms page.
From the Actions drop-down, select Enable Alarms Sound to hear a tone each time an alarm is reported.