Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Installation And Operation Manual page 336

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DLP-G121 Create a New or Cloned Alarm Severity Profile

In the New Profile or Clone Profile dialog box, enter a name in the New Profile Name field.

Profile names must be unique. If you try to import or name a profile that has the same name as another

profile, CTC adds a suffix to create a new name. Long file names are supported.

A new alarm profile (named in

and appears at the right of the previous profile column in the Alarm Profiles window. You can select it

and drag it to a different position.

The Default profile sets severities to standard Telcordia GR-253-CORE settings. If an alarm has an

Inherited profile, it inherits (copies) its severity from the same alarm's severity at the higher level. For

example, if you choose the Inherited profile from the network view, the severities at the lower levels

(node, card, and port) will be copied from this selection. A card with an Inherited alarm profile copies

the severities used by the node that contains the card. (If you are creating profiles, you can apply these

separately at any level. To do this, refer to the

task on page

Modify (customize) the new alarm profile:

In the new alarm profile column, click the alarm severity you want to change in the custom profile.

Choose a severity from the drop-down list.

Repeat Steps

when you view the alarms or conditions after making modifications:

After you have customized the new alarm profile, right-click the profile column to highlight it.

Click Store.

In the Store Profiles dialog box, click To Node(s) and go to Step

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Up to 10 profiles, including the two reserved profiles, Inherited and Default, can be stored in

for each severity you want to customize. Refer to the following guidelines

All Critical (CR) or Major (MJ) default or user-defined severity settings are demoted to

Minor (MN) in Non-Service-Affecting (NSA) situations as defined in Telcordia GR-474.

Default severities are used for all alarms and conditions until you create and apply a new profile.

Changing a severity to inherited (I) or unset (U) does not change the severity of the alarm.

10) is created. This profile duplicates the default profile severities

"DLP-G124 Apply Alarm Profiles to Cards and Nodes"

Manage Alarms

or click To File and go to Step

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