Interactive Diagnostics - Nortel 1000E Maintenance Manual

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Alarm Notification

Interactive diagnostics

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which can require some corrective action. System events with a severity of
Info are for informational purposes only and are not considered alarms.
The Alarm Notification application receives SNMP events from designated
network equipment over an Ethernet network and sends out alarm
notifications when specified event conditions are detected. Received events
are compared to a set of rules which can activate notifications of different
types. These notifications include:
• SNMP traps or events transmitted to predefined destinations
• text notification over a modem
• pager notification to alpha or numeric pagers
• e-mail using Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
• log
For detailed information on Alarm Management, see Optivity Telephony
Manager: System Administration (553-3001-330) and Simple Network
Management Protocol: Description and Maintenance (553-3001-519).
Load non-resident software programs into the memory through the OTM
System Terminal or an SDI terminal. These programs, also called overlays or
loads, are identified by a title and a number which is preceded by the
mnemonic for load (for example, Trunk Diagnostic — LD 36).
The programs used in Midnight and Background Routines are also used
manually as interactive diagnostic programs. See Table 9 on
Non-resident programs are used interactively with a command and response
format. In this format, enter a command that tells the system to perform a
specific task. The system then performs the task and sends system messages
indicating status or errors back to the user.
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