Overview of Alarms

An alarm in GigaVUE‑FM is a condition that requires user attention. GigaVUE‑FM triggers alarms based on the health status information of the devices, 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:

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Active monitoring alarms: Alarms are generated by actively monitoring the network resources and triggered based on threshold levels.

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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:

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Acknowledged: Indicates that the alarm has been viewed by the user and is aware of the alarm, irrespective of the action being taken.

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Unacknowledged: Indicates the alarm has not been viewed by the user and is pending action.

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Suppressed: Indicates the alarm that are suppressed or auto acknowledged by the user. To learn more about suppressing an alarm refer to Suppressed Alarms.

Based on the severity level, alarms are classified into the following types:

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Critical: Indicates service disruption or a total loss of service and needs immediate user attention.

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Major: Indicates major degradation to service and needs user attention at the earliest possible time.

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Minor: Indicates a minor service disruption which may result in major degradation and therefore needs attention.

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Warning: Indicates an information that may result in higher level issues if ignored over a period of time.

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Information: Indicates an information or a message that may not have major impact to service.