How do I configure alarm policies?

Purpose

The NFM-P provides default alarm policies for alarms. You can modify the default settings of these policies.

Perform the following procedure to modify the initial severity assignment, assign urgency levels, enable alarm history, add custom text, and configure other settings for one or more alarm types.

For specific alarm types, you can set thresholds for escalation and de-escalation of alarm severity; see What are alarm thresholds?.

Steps
 
1 

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

2 

Click on the Policies tab and perform one of the following:

  1. Configure settings for a specific alarm policy, including escalation and de-escalation thresholds, if required. Go to Step 3 .

  2. Configure settings for multiple alarm policies. Go to Step 9 .

    Note: You cannot configure alarm thresholds for multiple policies at the same time.

3 

Choose an alarm type. The alarm types are listed by policyGroup.AlarmPolicy.

Note: You can determine the applicable alarm policy for an alarm by searching for the base alarm name in the NFM-P Alarm Search Tool. The name format is package.AlarmName. For example, the GlobalAppProfileCreated alarm search result shows that the alarm is associated with the aapolicy.GlobalAppProfileCreated policy.

4 

Click Properties. The Specific Alarm Policy (Edit) form opens.

5 

Configure the required parameters on the General tab.

6 

Configure escalation thresholds for the alarm type.

  1. Enable the Escalation parameter.

  2. Choose a threshold in the list and click Properties, or click Add. The Escalation Threshold form opens.

  3. Configure the required parameters.

    For the Frequency parameter, the interval used is displayed on the form. The Interval parameter is configured in Step 5.

    You can configure both Frequency and Occurrence in the same escalation threshold.

    The Severity parameter specifies the severity level the alarm will be escalated to, and must be a higher severity than the Initial Severity Assignment configured in Step 5.

  4. Click OK to close the Escalation Threshold form.

  5. Configure additional thresholds as required.

7 

Configure de-escalation thresholds for the alarm type.

  1. Enable the De-escalation parameter.

  2. Choose a threshold in the list and click Properties, or click Add. The De-Escalation Threshold form opens.

  3. Configure the required parameters.

    For the Frequency parameter, the interval used is displayed on the form. The Interval parameter is configured in Step 5.

    The Severity parameter specifies the severity level the alarm will be de-escalated to.

  4. Click OK to close the De-Escalation Threshold form.

  5. Configure additional thresholds as required.

8 

Go to Step 12 .

9 

Shift-click to choose multiple alarms. The alarm types are listed by policy group.alarm policy.

Note: When you attempt to modify the configuration of multiple alarm policies at one time, the configuration is limited to the elements that the alarm policies have in common.

10 

Click Properties. The Specific Alarm Policy (Edit) form opens.

11 

Configure the required parameters on the General tab.

12 

Save your changes and close the forms.

End of steps