Alarm Profile Editor


Use the Alarm Profile Editor subtab (all views) to view and change default alarm severities. You can create unique alarm profiles for the ONS nodes, cards, and ports. Alarm profiles must be stored locally on a node before they can be applied to the node, cards, or ports.

CTC can store up to ten active alarm profiles at any time to apply to the node. Custom profiles can take eight of these active profile positions, and two are reserved by CTC. The reserved Default profile contains Telcordia GR-253-CORE severities. The reserved Inherited profile allows port alarm severities to be inherited from the card-level severities, or card alarm severities to be inherited by the node-level severities.

Item

Description

Alarm Type::Condition

Displays ONS node alarms and conditions in alphabetical order. For alarm descriptions and troubleshooting procedures, from the Help menu, choose Contents and Index and scroll to the Alarm Troubleshooting topic.

User profiles

As additional alarm profiles are created, they appear next to the default alarm profile with the name assigned by the user.

Only show service-affecting severities

If unchecked, the editor shows severities in the format <sev1>/<sev2> where <sev1> is a service-affecting severity and <sev1> is not service-affecting. If checked, the editor only shows <sev1> alarms.

Hide reference values

The first profile loaded into the editor is the reference profile. If this box is checked, rows in other profiles that match the reference profile are hidden.

Hide identical rows

If checked, identical rows do not appear.

New

Displays the New Profile dialog box where you can create a new profile in the editor where all severities are inherited.

Load

Loads a profile from a node or a file into the editor.

Store

Saves selected profiles in the editor.

Delete

Deletes profiles from a node.

Compare

Displays differences between alarm profiles (for example, individual alarms that are not configured equivalently between profiles).

Available

Displays all profiles available among all nodes.

Usage

Displays all entities (nodes and alarm subjects) present in the node and which profiles contain the alarm.

Help

Displays context-sensitive help.