Alarm Profiles
Use the Alarm Profiles tab to view and change default alarm severities by creating unique alarm profiles for individual ONS node ports, cards, or nodes. A created alarm profile can be applied to any node on the network. Alarm profiles can be saved to a file and imported elsewhere in the network, but the profile must be stored locally on a node before it can be applied to the node, its cards, or its cards’ 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 governed by the card-level severities, or card alarm severities to be determined by the node-level severities.
If one or more alarm profiles have been stored as files from elsewhere in the network onto the local PC or server hard drive where CTC resides, you can utilize as many profiles as you can physically store by deleting and replacing them locally in CTC so that only eight are active at any given time.
The Alarm Profiles tab presents two views, depending on whether it is shown in network, node, or card view. In network view, no subtabs appear, and the content shown is the same as the node and card view Alarm Profile Editor.
In node or card view, the Alarm Profiles tab provides two subtabs:
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Alarm Behavior (Node/Shelf View) allows you to view and change alarm profiles assigned to the node.
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Alarm Behavior (Card View) allows you to view and change alarm profiles assigned to the cards and ports.
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Alarm Profile Editor allows you to view and change default alarm severities.

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