Newtec MDM6000 - Alarm Masking

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General Device Settings and Actions MDM6000 Satellite Modem
12.12.1 Alarm Masking
You can mask individually selected alarms. This means that you can hide alarms.
Be careful when configuring this, as a masked alarm is not recognized anymore by the
MDM6000.
Alarm masking can also impact device redundancy, this because the alarm is not propagated
into a general device or a general interface alarm.
For more information please refer to section: AlarmConfigurationonpage118 .
Example on the behavior of a masked alarm.
Eth Data2 Link Failure: Alarm Mask = Off
1. No active alarms are present (normal behavior of the MDM6000);
2. The Ethernet cable of Eth Data2 is removed;
3. The Eth Data2 Link Failure alarm is raised.
– On the front panel the active alarm LED lights up according to the alarm that is present;
– On the overview page of the GUI the Data2 arrow turns red;
– The Alarm Pane shows the following: