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Introduction to Avaya MPS Alarms

The system alarms feature provides a facility to display various system messages in a

uniform format. The ALARMD process collects alarms from the various processes,

writes them to the alarm logs, and forwards the alarms to any Alarm Viewers

requesting to receive messages.The alarm messages are translated into the standard

format via an alarm database file (alarm.db.pag and alarm.db.dir) which is

located in the $MPSHOME/common/etc directory. This file contains textual and

other data associated with each alarm message in the system.

The alarm logs are located in the directory $MPSHOME/common/log in the format

alarm.<component_type>.<component_#>.log, with backup files being

appended with the .bak extension.

Alarms are also assigned a severity level, ranging from 1 (least severe) to 9 (most

severe). Less severe alarms may indicate errors which do not have significant impact

on system functioning or indicate normal system events (such as a process going into a

ready state). More severe alarms may indicate critical system failure and require

immediate action to correct the problem.

Use the PeriView Alarm Viewer utility to display logged system alarms and to create

filters to selectively allow/ignore certain alarms to be displayed/logged. Refer to the

PeriView Reference Manual for more information on using the Alarm Viewer and for

alarm filtering.

Use the merge utility to merge alarm logs into a single output (typically a separate

file). merge automatically outputs the alarms according to their chronological order

in their source log files. Refer to the Command Reference Manual for more

information.

Use the genalm utility to generate alarms from the command line. genalm can also

display alarms to the standard output (STDOUT). Refer to the Command Reference

Manual for more information.

Alarm Message Format

Alarms are organized numerically within a software process name. The source of this

alarm information is the individual alarm database records. Alarms are displayed by

the PeriView Alarm Viewer. They are displayed in the format:

proc_name comp_name alm_code host_num phone_line_num date_time severity

message

where:

proc_name

The name of the process which generated the alarm.

comp_name

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