Alarm Profiles - Cisco ONS 15454 DWDM Reference Manual

Chapter 16 Alarm and TCA Monitoring and Management

16.5 Alarm Profiles

The alarm profiles feature allows you to change default alarm severities by creating unique alarm profiles
for individual ONS 15454 ports, cards, or nodes. A created alarm profile can be applied to any node on
the network. Alarm profiles can be saved to a file and imported elsewhere in the network, but the profile
must be stored locally on a node before it can be applied to the node, its cards, or its cards' ports.
CTC can store up to ten active alarm profiles at any time to apply to the node. Custom profiles can take
eight of these active profile positions. Two other profiles, Default profile and Inherited profile, are
reserved by the NE, and cannot be edited.The reserved Default profile contains Telcordia GR-474-CORE
severities. The reserved Inherited profile allows port alarm severities to be governed by the card-level
severities, or card alarm severities to be determined by the node-level severities.
If one or more alarm profiles have been stored as files from elsewhere in the network onto the local PC
or server hard drive where CTC resides, you can utilize as many profiles as you can physically store by
deleting and replacing them locally in CTC so that only eight are active at any given time.
16.5.1 Creating and Modifying Alarm Profiles
Alarm profiles are created in the network view using the node view (single-shelf mode) or shelf view
(multishelf mode) Provisioning > Alarm Profiles tabs.
severities. A default alarm severity following Telcordia GR-474-CORE standards is preprovisioned for
every alarm. After loading the default profile or another profile on the node, you can clone a profile to
create custom profiles. After the new profile is created, the Alarm Profiles window shows the original
profile (frequently Default) and the new profile.
Figure 16-2
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Network View Alarm Profiles Window
Figure 16-2 shows the default list of alarm
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