A. nmic generated alarms – ADC Release 3.1 User Manual

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February 2001

Section 2 Operations and Maintenance

Page 2-441

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A. NMIC GENERATED ALARMS

Table 101-2. Alphabetical NMIC Generated Alarm Reports

ALARM
MESSAGE

SEVERITY

IMPACT

DESCRIPTION

SUGGESTED COURSE OF ACTION

NE Added

Informatio
nal Alert

Not
Service
Affecting

An NE has been added to the
Ring via user command in
GUI.

Informational message, no
action is necessary.

NE Booted

Informatio
nal Alert

Not
Service
Affecting

An NE has completed the
boot process either from user
initiated reset, or an NE being
established.

Informational message, no
action is necessary.

NE Isolated

Critical

Service
Outage

NMIC can not communicate
with the NE indicated. May
be fiber related failure (cut),
SC communications failure.
In the event of an SC failure,
the cell traffic may still
continue to/from the NE.

Use OAM loopbacks if
necessary to check cell traffic
to/from the node. No loopbacks
may be performed at the
isolated mode until it recovers.
At the location of the isolated
node, check optical cards for
indications of LOS. If LOS is
not present, management cells
are not being processed at the
node. Reset SC card, replace if
necessary.

NE
Removed

Informatio
nal Alert

Not
Service
Affecting

An NE has been removed
from the Ring via user
command in GUI.

Informational message, no
action is necessary.

NMIC
Administrati
vely Locked
for
Maintenance

Informatio
nal Alert

Not
Service
Affecting

This informational message
appears when a database
restoration is attempted. It
locks out user activity until
restoration is completed.

No action necessary.

NMIC
Administrati
vely
Unlocked

Informatio
nal Alert

Not
Service
Affecting

This informational message
appears when a database
restoration has completed
successfully. Indicates NMIC
is ready for processing user
requests.

No action necessary.

NMIC Disk
Usage
Threshold
Exceeded

Informatio
nal Alert

Not
Service
Affecting

Informational alarm appears
when disk usage reaches 50%
and again at 80%.

Check disk files for spurious
alarm messages that are
affecting disk space.

NMIC File
Replication
Failure

Minor

Not
Service
Affecting.

NMIC failed to copy selected
files to the stand-by NMIC.

Check statuses of NMICs and
retry replication.

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