How do I configure alarm severity and deletion behavior?

Note: You must have a user account with the administrator scope of command role or write access to the fm.GlobalPolicy class to perform this procedure.

Steps
 
1 

Choose Administration→Alarm Settings from the NFM-P main menu. The Alarm Settings form opens.

2 

In the Alarm Severity Settings panel, enable or disable alarm severity settings and specify the behavior for automatic and manual alarm settings.

Use the following steps:

  1. Configure the Enable Severity Settings parameter, as required. You cannot configure additional parameters in the Alarm Severity Settings panel unless the parameter is enabled.

  2. Configure the required parameters in the Manual panel.

  3. Configure the required parameters in the Automatic panel.

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CAUTION 

CAUTION

Service Disruption

Deleting an alarm resets the frequency of the alarm to 1.

This may cause conflicts with configured alarm escalation and de-escalation policies.

In the Alarm Deletion Settings panel, enable or disable alarm deletion settings and specify the behavior for manual and automatic alarm deletion settings.

  1. Configure the Enable Deletion Settings parameter. You cannot configure parameters in the Alarm Deletion Settings panel unless the parameter is enabled.

  2. Configure the other parameters in the Alarm Deletion Settings panel, as required.

4 

See How do I configure alarm history logging? for information about configuring parameters in the Alarm History DB Behavior panel.

5 

Configure the Alarm Event Settings.

6 

To reset all parameters on the General tab to their default values, click Reset To Default.

7 

Save your changes and close the form.

End of steps