Displaying current alarms

Use the following procedure to display current alarms to ensure that your alarm definitions are generating alarm reports correctly. You can display current alarms by using one of the current alarm views.

Current alarms are alarms that have generated a start message but have not generated an end message. The start message is displayed until an alarm evaluation determines that the exception condition has ended. Then, the start message is replaced by the end message. The end message persists in the ALARMS view for thirty seconds before it is removed.

Related topic

Working-with-individual-alarm-definitions

Alarm Management includes the following current alarm views:

  • Current By Severity (ALARMS)
  • Current By Name (ALBYNAME)
  • Current by Target (ALBYTGT)
  • Current by Product (ALBYPROD)
  • Current by Solution profile (ALARMSPF) 

To display current alarms (by name)

Select Current By Name from the Alarm Reports section of the EZALARMS menu.The ALBYNAME view is displayed.

Current Alarms by Name (ALBYNAME) view

 ddmmmyyyy  hh:mm:ss ------ BMC AMI Ops WINDOW INTERFACE (Vv.r.mm) ----------------
COMMAND  ===>                                                 SCROLL ===> PAGE
CURR WIN ===> 1        ALT WIN ===>                                            
>W1 =ALBYNAME==========CXTSTW===*========ddmmmyyyy==hh:mm:ss====PLEXMGR==D=2636
CM Alarm Definition > CurrSev  CurrSev  Sev Hlp Message ID       Message Text
-- Name------------ - OnsetTm  Duration --- Ind ---------------- ------------
   ECSAMAX          > 13:05:55 02:52:04 MIN No  ECSAMAXSM0       ECSA usage >
   ECSAMAX2         > 13:05:55 02:52:03 MIN No  ECSAMAXSM0       ECSA usage >
   ECSAMAX2         > 13:05:55 02:52:04 MIN No  ECSAMAXSM0       ECSA usage >
   JCPUALLMSG       > 15:46:42 00:11:16 CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       > 15:46:42 00:11:16 CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       > 15:46:42 00:11:16 CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       > 15:46:28 00:11:31 CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       > 15:46:13 00:11:46 CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       > 15:17:13 00:40:45 CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       > 15:16:43 00:41:15 CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       > 14:36:26 01:21:32 CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       > 14:31:25 01:26:33 CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       > 14:16:26 01:41:32 CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       > 14:09:45 01:48:13 CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       > 14:09:00 01:48:58 CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       > 14:01:52 01:56:06 CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       > 13:57:01 02:00:57 CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       >          7754:36: CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       >          7754:36: CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam
   JCPUALLMSG       >          7754:36: CRI No  JCPUALLMSGS00    CXTSTW Jobnam

For each alarm message, the current alarm views display the following information:

  • Time the alarm was issued
  • Severity of the alarm
  • Whether or not additional user-written help is available
  • Message ID for the alarm
  • Message text

 

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