When Fault Manager Receives Data; How Fault Manager Displays Faults; Color Highlighting; Alarms - AT&T OneVision DEFINITY G3 Fault Management User Manual

The Fault Manager

When Fault Manager Receives Data

Fault Manager receives PBX data from Fault Management during the following
events:
At start-up (when Fault Management is first invoked from the NMS)
During the normal data refresh (refresh and polling intervals)
At a user's request
Upon receipt of a trap
NOTE:
For information about how Fault Management retrieves data see The
Startup Process in Chapter 2.

How Fault Manager Displays Faults

Faults are active alarms and errors within a PBX. Fault manager uses the
following methods of displaying these faults:

Color Highlighting

Alarms

Alarms Reports
Error Reports
Color Highlighting
Fault manager highlights the affected hardware with the color of the highest
severity fault.
For example, if a cabinet has four warnings and one minor alarm, the cabinet is
highlighted with the color of the minor alarm.
NOTE:
If your operating system allows you to change these color settings, you can
do so from the Setup menu. See Table 3-2 for instructions.
Alarms
The alarms display, shown in Figure 4-1, is located on the right side of any
configuration window.
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Issue 2 April 1996