
14 Fault and performance management fundamentals
Nortel Business Communications Manager 5.0
Fault and Performance Management
NN40170-701 01.01 Standard
August 2009
Copyright © 2009 Nortel Networks
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You can use the Alarm Banner in the Business Element Manager to view
current alarm counts and recent alarm activity on the BCM system. The Alarm
Banner appears on the bottom-right corner of the Business Element Manager
window. The Alarm Banner is visible at all times, so you do not have to
navigate to the Alarms Panel to view alarms. If you notice a change in alarm
conditions in the Alarm Banner — for example a red spike in the Critical
category — you can navigate to the Alarms Panel to view the actual alarm.
Alarm banner
The Alarm Banner provides counts of Critical, Major, Minor, and Warning
alarms; Information alarms are not included. You can specify whether to
include acknowledged alarms in the Alarm Banner.
Each alarm severity counter has a graph, which represents a data sample of
the last 20 polling intervals. The system polls for new alarms every 30 seconds
by default. The graph has a color to indicate a data change. The colors are as
follows:
If you clear the alarm log from the Business Element Manager, the alarms
displayed on the Alarm Banner are also cleared and reset to 0.
Table 1 Alarm graph colors
Color Indicates
Green There are no alarms of this severity, or there are
alarms of this severity but the count has decreased
since the last polling interval.
Yellow There are alarms of this severity, but they are older
than at least one polling interval.
Red A new alarm has occurred since the last polling
interval.
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