Alarms

Below are just a few alarms and how they are displayed.

 

Span Alarms

Carrier Group Alarm (CGA) or Span Dead

Description:

The IMG will send a number of different alarms to EventView depending on what event has occurred to that span. Below is screen capture of what EventView will display if the cable is removed from one of the bearer spans.

 

Cable removed from interface 4 which has a bearer span configured on it

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Possible Problem:

This alarm is generated when the IMG detects a carrier group alarm for more than the configured time period. Possible problems:

Fix:

Repair or replace the bad cable

DATA:

The data displayed in Eventview is shown in screen capture above

 

 

License Failure Alarms

License Logical Node ID Mismatch Alarm

 

Description:

The following alarm is generated when the Logical Node ID of an IMG and the Logical Node ID specified in the .csa file being loaded for that same IMG are not the same value.

Problem:

The alarm will display in Eventview if the following is true:

All newly reset IMG’s report a Logical IMG of 255 to indicate that the Logical Node ID needs to be set.

Fix:

Reset the IMG. Upon completion of the reset, the IMG should configure normally.

DATA:

"HostAlarm(Node=0, Type=Communications, SubType=Node Detected LNI Reset. Manual Reset Required., Severity=Major)"

 

 

SIP Gateway Alarm

SIP Gateway Alarm

A SIP gateway Alarm that will appear in both EventView and alarm.log. The alarm indicates the status of a particular SIP Gateway.

This alarm will contain the status (either “unreachable” or “reachable”) and the IP address of the Gateway. The SIP Gateway Alarm is first sent if the Gateway is considered Unreachable. Another alarm is the Alarm Cleared message. This alarm is sent whenthe Gateway is considered Reachable again. Below are samples of the alarm messages

 

SIP Gateway Alarm

Sep 19 2007 11:08:36.838 X0[88.235.44.169]->H : 00 b9 04 0a 00 03 0a 04 07 00 04 07 cc 09 c9 4a

Sep 19 2007 11:08:36 **Major: Node 0: Entity 0xa Alarm: Unrecognized Alarm 0x4

 

00 b9  Alarm Message

04 Reserved

0a Sequence Number

00 Logical Node ID

03 Severity (3=Major)

0a Alarm Type ALARMentGATEWAY

04 Gateway Unreachable  03=Gateway Reachable

07 DATA Length

00 Gateway Status  0=Down   1=Up

04 07 GATEWAY ID (1031)

cb 07 65 41  GATEWAY IP Address (203.7.101.65)

 

Alarm Cleared

Sep 19 2007 11:12:38.048 X0[88.235.44.169]->H : 00 c1 02 77 00 03 0a 03 07 01 04 07 cc 09 c9 4a

Sep 19 2007 11:12:38 Major: Node 0: Entity 0xa Alarm: Unrecognized Alarm Cleared 0x3

 

00 c1 Alarm Cleared

02 Reserved

77 Sequence Number

00 Logical Node ID

03 Severity (3=Major)

0a Alarm Type Alarm Cleared

03 Gateway Reachable 04=Unreachable

07 DATA Length

01 Gateway Status  0=Down   1=Up

04 07 Gateway ID

cb 07 65 41 Gateway IP address

 

 

 

PPL Event Indication

PPL Event Indications

 

EventView also displays the PPL Event Indications for events that happen on the IMG. Below are a couple screen captures of the messages that are displayed in Eventview. Note that the Failure Reason is displayed in the message. The PPL Event Indications will print out any events that happen along with the failure reason for ease of troubleshooting

 

Cable removed from span that has link on it

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Link brought into service through ClientView

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