View Alarms

To view the alarms triggered in GigaVUE-FM:

1.   Click Alarms on the top navigation bar.

The Alarm page appears with widgets for the following alarm categories:

Unacknowledged
Acknowledged
Critical
Major
Minor
Warning
Information
2. Click on each of the widget to view the list of alarms belonging to that specific category.

 

 

Figure 233: Alarms

The following table describes the parameters displayed in the alarm list view:

Permission Level

Description

Last Triggered

The time when the alarm was last triggered.

Severity

The severity status of the alarm. This can be critical. major, minor, warning or info.

Type

The type of event that generated the alarm. For example, Faulty power module, Unhealthy map, and so on.

Description

The description of the alarm type in detail.

Source Type

The source type that triggered the alarm, e.g. port, power module, fan.

Source ID

The ID of the resource associated with the alarm.

Note: You can hover your mouse on the source id to view the cluster-id, source name and alias name for the ports that have an alias.

Comment

Comment added/updated by the user for the alarm.

Status

The status of the alarm. Can be:

Acknowledged. You can hover your mouse to view the details of the user who acknowledged the alarm and the last acknowledged time.
Unacknowledged
3. Select an alarm and click the ellipsis to:
Acknowledge: To acknowledge an alarm. If you select this, a confirmation dialog appears saying that once you acknowledge an alarm you cannot unacknowledge the same. Click acknowledge to proceed.

Note:  This option is available only for unacknowledged alarms.

Add Comment: To add a comment while acknowledging an alarm.
View Details: To view the details of an alarm such as alarm type, severity, description and other details.

Note:  Right-click the Last Triggered time to view the options mentioned above and perform the corresponding actions.