HP Intelligent Management Center v5.2 Branch Intelligent Management System Administrator Guide

8 CPE alarm management
CPE alarm management enables you to manage the alarms reported from the managed CPEs and
generated during the system operation. It contains four main functions:
• Real-time Alarms—Enables you to view information on unrecovered alarms in real time, and
to query, acknowledge and recover realtime alarms from the realtime alarms list.
• All Alarms—Enables you to view alarms of all types including: recovered, unrecovered,
acknowledged and unacknowledged.
• Alarm Notification—Enables you to forward alarms to operators via e-mail or SMS text
message, or to other management systems when alarms conform to certain notification rules.
You can also use this function to define notification rules.
• Alarm Definition—Enables you to define the conditions under which an event generated from
CPEs becomes an alarm.
Managing realtime alarms
The realtime alarm page allows you to view 50 unrecovered alarms at Warning and higher levels.
It contains information about each alarm, including level, alarm source, description, and time. You
can also access actions such as Recover and Delete from this page.
To view the Real-time Alarms page:
• Click Alarm > CPE Alarm > Real-time Alarms.
The Real-time Alarms page opens, as shown in Figure 32.
Figure 32 Real-time Alarms page
Viewing realtime alarms
The Real-time Alarms page displays:
• Refresh Interval—The alarms received within the latest refresh interval are new alarms. From
the Refresh Interval list on the upper right corner of the browsing pane, you can set the refresh
interval to 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, or 5 minutes. The default interval
is 10 seconds.
• Level—The current severity or alarm level status for the associated alarm.
• Alarm Source—The CPE name, IP address, or both to which this alarm refers. This field contains
an active link to navigate to the CPE details page for the source of this alarm. Locate and click
the active link in this field to view the CPE Details page.
• Description—A description of the event or condition causing the alarm. The Description field
contains a link to the alarm details for the selected alarm. Locate and click the active link in
this field to view the Alarm Details page.
• Alarm at—The date and time stamp of this alarm.
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