traps to support third party management systems. Refer to Appendix: VB220 Versus VBC Alarms for a
description of alarm handling in the VideoBRIDGE Controller.
The Probe distinguishes between events and alarms. The ETR software module will always generate
alarms and the Systems software module will always generate events. The Ethernet software module will
by default generate events for errors that are resolved within 1 second, otherwise it will generate alarms.
This can be overridden by checking the ‘Treat ethernet events as alarms’ box in the
Setup — Params
view. The OTT module generates alarms only.
6.2.1 Alarms — All Alarms
The
Alarms
view gives the user the possibility of viewing alarms according to type or as one combined
list. The individual alarm lists can hold the number alarms indicated below independently of each other,
meaning that one may become full without affecting the other lists.
Alarm list capacity
Ethernet alarms (ETH) 400 alarms
Full Service Monitoring (FSM) 100 alarms
Over The Top Television (OTT) 100 alarms
ETSI TR 101 290 Analysis (ETR) 400 alarms
System alarms (SYS) 100 alarms
If
Auto-refresh list
is selected, the alarm list will be continuously updated with new alarms. Active
alarms are always located at the top of the list.
Clicking the
View list offline
button gives the user the opportunity to view the complete alarms and
events list. By clicking one of the blue information icons leftmost in the offline list, a detailed alarm
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