Overview of Alarms
An alarm in GigaVUE-FM is a condition that requires user attention. GigaVUE FM triggers alarms based on the events happening in GigaVUE-FM, that is, GigaVUE-FM generates alarms based on the health status of the physical and logical components in the visibility fabric.
GigaVUE-FM generates alarms either as:
| • | Active monitoring alarms: Alarms are generated by actively monitoring the network resources and triggered based on threshold levels. |
| • | Passive monitoring alarms: Alarms are generated after a problem has occurred based on the traps generated by the device. |
Alarms are classified into the following types based on their status:
| • | Acknowledged: Indicates that the alarm has been viewed by the user and appropriate action has been taken |
| • | Unacknowledged: Indicates the alarm has not been viewed by the user and is pending action |
Based on the severity level, alarms are classified into the following types:
| • | Critical: Indicates service disruption or a total loss of service and needs immediate user attention |
| • | Major: Indicates major degradation to service and needs user attention at the earliest possible time |
| • | Minor: Indicates a minor service disruption which may result in major degradation and therefore needs attention |
| • | Warning: Indicates an information that may result in higher level issues if ignored over a period of time |
| • | Information: Indicates an information or a message that may not have major impact to service |
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