Alarm Summary Details; Top 5 Sources Of Alarms - Nortel 2350 User Manual

Alarm Summary Details

The WMS displays Fault Management data in the Content panel when you click on the Alarms tool bar option. To
access the Fault Management System, WMS client must have a connection with the host running the WMS service.
To access Fault Management data
1
Select the Alarms option in the main WMS tool bar.
2
To view a table of all alarms in WMS, click Details at the bottom right of the Alarm Summary screen.
Performing this action produces the same effect as clicking the tabular icon
Summary screen, you can also choose to view a summary of alarm information in other formats.
You can click the tabular (Show Table) icon
the chart and table views.
To view Alarm Summary information in table format
1
To view a summary of alarm information in table format, click the tabular icon. By default, the table
displays statistics of faults by functional area on the X axis and by severity on the Y axis.
In the table view, hypertext numbers link to filtered lists that contain only the alarms for that row and
column.
2
To view only category data, click Alarms by Category in the list at the bottom of the screen.
3
To view only severity data, click Alarms by Severity in the list at the bottom of the screen.
To view Alarm Summary information in pie chart format
You can view alarm summary information via pie charts in two different formats: by category and by severity.
1
To view a summary of alarm information by category, from the list at the bottom left of the Alarm
Summary screen, select the show chart icon, and then click Alarms by Category.
2
To view a summary of alarm information by severity, select Alarms by Category from the list at the
bottom left of the Alarm Summary screen, and then click the show chart icon. WMS displays a pie chart
with a summary of alarms by severity, as shown in the following screen.

Top 5 Sources of Alarms

Sources are the separate WSSs in the network plan.
To view the top 5 sources of alarms in chart format
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Click the chart icon at the bottom left corner of the Top 5 Sources of Alarms section of the WMS screen.
or the graph (Show Chart) icon
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