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Surveyor
User’s Guide
Alarm Editor
There are six alarm groups that appear on the tabs in the Alarm Editor. The Expert
tab and Application Response tab are only available if you have the Expert plug-in.
The Multi-QoS tab only appears if you have the Multi-QoS software plug-in.
Table 9-1 lists the alarm groups in the Alarm Editor.
Click on the appropriate tab to display the alarm table you want. Each alarm can be
used with the default values provided by Surveyor, or you can modify them with the
Alarms Editor to precisely meet your resource monitoring needs.
The complete selection of alarms for that type is shown in each tab in the alarm
editor. Each line in the table is called an alarm or alarm row. You can add as many
alarms as you want in the table.
If a threshold is exceeded for any enabled alarm, an alarm event occurs. The event is
reported according to the value configured in the
Action field for the alarm row.
Table 9-1. Alarm Editor
Alarm Editor Description
MQOS Allows you to modify and enable any of the 7 Multi-QoS alarms.
Alarms test for call jitter times, call setup times, dropped packets, and
R-factors in VoIP calls. You can set alarms to test against specific
codecs.
Expert Allows you to modify and enable any of the 35 Expert alarms. Alarms
test for discrete conditions at different protocol layers, such as NFS
retransmissions at the application layer, overload utilization percent-
ages at the MAC layer, or TCP/IP SYN packets at the transport layer.
See the chapter on the Expert System for a description of the expert
alarms.
Application Response Allows you to modify and enable any of 8 application response time
alarms. Alarms test for application response times related to applica-
tion protocols such as SMTP, HTTP, or NFS.
MAC (Ethernet MAC
Layer) Allows you to modify and enable any of 21 MAC layer alarms. Alarms
test for conditions related to Ethernet conditions such as utilization
rate, packet size, errors, and frame types.
Token Ring Alarm Allows you to modify and enable any of 29 Token Ring alarms. Alarms
test for conditions related to Token Ring conditions such as utilization
rate, packet size, errors, and frame types.
Network Allows you to modify and enable any of the 65 Network alarms.
Alarms test for conditions related to Network Layer conditions, such as
IP/IPX/ARP packet or octet counts.