Event Attributes; Generation Of Alarm And Event - Ruckus Wireless Virtual SmartZone High Scale Reference Manual

Alarm and Event Management
Alarm and Event Management

Event Attributes

An event always includes the following attributes:
• Event Source: The identifier of the source component that generates the event
• Timestamp: The time when the event occurred
• Event Severity: Severity is classified as critical, major, minor, warning, informational or debug
• Event Type: The type of event that has occurred
• Event Information: Contains detail attribute fields in a key-value pair, where a list of field names is provided

Generation of Alarm and Event

The following are the steps of how alarm and event are generated.
1. Alarm
a. An alarm is a persistent indication of a fault that clears only when the triggering condition had been resolved.
b. An alarm can be filtered in the controller web interface based on:
• Alarm Category - Alarm classifications
• Alarm Source: Source of the alarm
• Alarm Status: Could either be outstanding or cleared
• Acknowledge Time: The time when the alarm is acknowledged
• Date and Time - Date and time when the alarm is acknowledged
• Severity: Severity is classified as critical, major or minor
• Status - Could either be cleared or outstanding
• Type - Alarm type
c. To view the below alarm information in the controller web interface navigate to Events & Alarms > Alarms
• Date and Time
• Code
• Alarm Type
• Severity
• Status
• Acknowledged on
• Cleared By
• Cleared On
• Comments
• Activity
• Actions
d. On an alarm generation, the controller web interface provides the following information as seen in the figure below.
• Alarm console, which displays the cleared and outstanding alarms visible to the user who is currently logged on.
• Alarm summary, which lists various information such as outstanding alarm counts, unacknowledged alarm counts, etc.
• You may clear an alarm or a set of alarms to let other administrators know that you have already resolved the issue.
When you select a group of alarms, the Clear Alarm button is activated. Click this button. A text box appears where you
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Ruckus SmartCell Gateway 200 Virtual SmartZone High Scale and SmartZone 300 Alarm and Event Reference Guide
Part Number: 800-71565-001 Rev A