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About the Alarms Page

To access this page, select Monitor > Alerts & Alarms > Alarms.

Use the Alarms page to view system-generated alarms. Alarms notify you of conditions that might prevent the device from operating normally. Alarm conditions for a system are preset and are based on the fault monitoring and performance monitoring (FMPM) being performed on a device. For example, conditions such as hardware issues, drop in throughput and latency of data, temperature variations, and capacity optimization issues automatically trigger an alarm.

Note:

To generate alarms correctly, ensure that CSO and the devices are NTP enabled, and in sync. The time set on CSO must match with the time set on the devices.

The difference between alerts and alarms lies in the type of events that are being monitored. An alert is used to notify administrators about significant events within the system. For example, when a predefined network traffic condition is met. For more information about alerts, see Alerts Overview.

Tasks You Can Perform

You can perform the following tasks from this page:

  • View alarm activity within a specific time range:

    • Select either 2 hours (2h), 4 hours (4h), 8 hours (8h), 16 hours (16h), 24 hours (24h), or 1 week (1w), or Custom as the time range to view alarm activity. By default, alarm activity is displayed for a time range of 1 week.

      If you click Custom, the Custom Time Range Selection page appears.

      You must specify the From date and time, and To date and time (in MM/DD/YYYY and HH:MM:SS formats).

  • View details of an alarm—Select a generated alarm on the page and right-click to select Detail View or click More > Detail View to view more details (such as alarm type, severity, and so on) of the alarm.

  • Delete an alarm—Select an alarm that you want to delete and click the Delete icon. The selected alarm is deleted from the page.

  • Apply a filter to view specific alarms—Click the Filter icon and select the filter criteria from the list of available options, to view only specific alarms. You can filter the alarms based on severity (critical, major, minor, normal), tenant name, site name, and source of the alarm.

  • Show or hide columns on the page—Click the Show or Hide Columns icon to select or clear columns that you want to display or hide on the page.

  • Select the number of alarms that you want to view on the page—From the Details list, select either 20, 50 or 100 as the number of alarms that you want to view on the page.

Field Descriptions

Table 1 describes the fields on the Alarms page.

Table 1: Fields on the Alarms Page

Field

Description

Severity

Severity of the alarm.

Time

Date and time when the alarm was generated.

Tenant

Name of the tenant.

Site

Name of the tenant site for which the alarm was generated.

Source

Source from where the alarm originated.

Description

Description of the alarm.

UUID

Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) of the alarm.

You can use the UUID to identify an alarm on the Monitor > Logs page.

Link Name

Name of the link that generated the alarm.

Service Instance

Service instance associated with the alarm.

Object Type

Type of device from which the alarm originated.

Example: Hub