14.3.2 Monitoring alarm events from NNM
- Organization of this subsection
(1) Monitoring alarm events from the NNM node submap
The PFM - Agent or PFM - RM symbol in which an alarm occurs is displayed in the node submap when SNMP traps are sent to NNM. If multiple alarms occur at the same time, the symbol is displayed in the color that indicates the most severe condition among the occurring alarms.
You can display reports related to alarms from the node submap if alarms have been associated with reports.
(a) Description of symbols displayed in the node submap
The following table describes the colors of symbols displayed in the node submap and their meanings.
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Symbol color# |
Meaning |
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The color that indicates Normal (green) |
Conditions of all the bind alarms are normal. |
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The color that indicates Minor (yellow) |
A warning alarm has occurred. |
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The color that indicates Critical (red) |
An abnormal alarm has occurred. |
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The color that indicates Unknown (light-blue) |
The alarm condition cannot be determined. |
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The display colors in default configuration may differ depending on the NNM that is used.
(b) Displaying reports from the node submap
You can display the View Report window of PFM - Web Console from the node submap if alarms have been previously associated with reports.
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Click the symbol that indicates PFM - Agent or PFM - RM in the node submap, and choose Administration, Performance Management, and then View Report.
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In the login window, enter your credentials for logging on to PFM - Web Console.
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Click the OK button.
A report is displayed in the window of PFM - Web Console.
(c) Initializing symbols
Symbols are not initialized even if status monitoring has finished in NNM. In this case, you must manually reset symbols to Normal.
To initialize symbols displayed in the node submap:
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Click the symbol that indicates PFM - Agent or PFM - RM, and choose Administration, Performance Management, Change Status, and then Normal.
The symbol that indicates PFM - Agent or PFM - RM is initially set at Normal.
(2) Monitoring alarm events from the NNM alarms browser (event browser)
When NNM receives SNMP traps from Performance Management, NNM displays the reported detailed information on the condition in the alarms browser (event browser).
(a) Description of messages displayed in the alarms browser
The event category of Performance Management is status event. Event severity differs depending on the conditions of the alarms that occur in Performance Management.
The following table describes event severity and alarm conditions.
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Event severity |
Alarm condition |
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Normal |
Normal (green) |
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Warning |
Warning (yellow) |
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Critical |
Abnormal (red) |
The format of messages displayed in the alarm browser is as follows:
severity date/time source pfmagent-agent-type condition status has changed. occurrence-location conditional-expression-or-value-of-threshold |report-information|.
Meanings of items displayed in a message are described below.
- severity
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Indicates the event severity described in Table 14-7.
- date/time
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Indicates the date and time when an alarm event occurs.
- source
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Indicates PFM - Agent or PFM - RM in which an alarm event occurs.
- pfmagent-agent-type
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Indicates the agent type of PFM - Agent or PFM - RM in which an alarm event occurs.
- condition
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Indicates the alarm condition. One of the following values is displayed:
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NORMAL
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WARNING
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CRITICAL
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- occurrence-location
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Indicates the PFM - Agent or PFM - RM instance name.
- conditional-expression-or-value-of-threshold
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Indicates the conditional expression and value specified in the alarm definition.
- report-information
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Indicates the report information associated with an alarm. The information is displayed in the following format:
pfm-agent-or-pfm-rm-host-name@pfm-manager-host-name@report-id
(b) Displaying reports from the alarm browser
You can display the View Report window of PFM - Web Console from the alarm browser if alarms have been previously associated with reports.
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Select an event in the alarm browser, and choose Actions, Additional Actions, and then Performance Management Report.
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In the Login window, enter your credentials for logging on to PFM - Web Console.
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Click the OK button.
A report is displayed in the window of PFM - Web Console.
(3) Monitoring alarm events from the NNM management window
You can display the window of PFM - Web Console from the NNM management window to check various settings of Performance Management.
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In the NNM management window, choose Administration, Performance Management, and then Launch WebConsole.
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When you define a single piece of PFM - Manager in the NNM linkage definition file
Go to step 3.
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When you define multiple pieces of PFM - Manager in the NNM linkage definition file
Go to step 2.
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In the window to select the Manager, click the host name of the PFM - Manager host to which you want to connect.
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In the Login window, enter your credentials for logging on to PFM - Web Console.
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Click the OK button.
The window of PFM - Web Console appears.