Workflow to set up alarm management

Stages

The following workflow lists the high-level steps required to set up alarm management.

 
1 

Establish a JMS subscription. See NFM-P JMS client configuration and testing for more information about creating a JMS consumer.


2 

Retrieve inventory information for the required elements in the network. See Recommended durable JMS client operation for how to perform a retrieval without losing events during a retrieval of inventory.


3 

If required, retrieve objects that affect or are related to the required network objects using fm.FaultManager.findObjectsAffectionOfn and fm.FaultManager.findObjectsRelatedToOfn methods. See the XML API Reference for more information about the methods.


4 

Retrieve alarms for the network elements of interest using fm.FaultManager.findAlarmsForOfn. See the XML API Reference for more information.


5 

As required, configure alarm policies. See Alarm policies for more information.


6 

As required, acknowledge, clear, or promote/demote the alarms. See Alarm management for more information.