OSM Migration and Configuration Guide (G06.30+)

Getting Started With OSM Applications
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Functional Differences
Propagation of Subcomponent Problems
As with TSM, alarms and problem attributes on resources in the OSM Service
Connection are propagated up to parent objects. However, instead of displaying
Subcomponent State attributes (on the Attributes tab) for the parent object, the OSM
Tree pane displays a special icon over parent objects to indicate problems with
subcomponents (as Figure 5-8 illustrates).
Alarm and Attribute Suppression
Another new feature in OSM is the ability to suppress alarms and problem attributes.
You can acknowledge a known problem and keep it from propagating problem
conditions all the way up to the system icon (as Figure 5-9
illustrates).
In this example, you might want to suppress the problem attribute on the tape drive
because it is a known problem and you do not want to miss other problems that arise
on the system. After you suppress the problem attribute (see Figure 5-10
), that
Figure 5-8. Propagation of Subcomponent State Problems
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