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Alarm History Report

The Alarm History report is a standardized report generated in Edge Services Director for all managed service delivery gateway (SDG) devices that are visible to Edge Services Director. It shows all active, acknowledged, and cleared alarms that occurred within a specified period of time for the indicated node. This report can be generated for the entire network, or for the managed service delivery gateways (SDGs) or SDG groups in the All Network tree of the View pane in Gateway mode. The report has two portions: a report header and the report body.

This topic describes:

Alarm History Header

The Alarm History report header provides file creation information about the report. The contents of the report header are described in Table 1.

Table 1: Alarm History Report Header

Field	Description
Edge Services Director REPORT	The type of report—in this case, the Alarm History report.
Generated On	The date and time the report ran. The date format is: [Day of the Month] [Month] [Year]. The time format follows the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). For example: 07 December 2012 11:35 PM PST.
Generated By	The username of the user that generated the report.
Report Name	The name of the report assigned when the report was created.
Scope	The report is generated from this view and node in the network. Perspective is Gateway view of the network. Node represents the selected object upon which the report is based, such as All network, SDG, or SDG group.
Report Filters	The period of time specified for data collection.

Alarm History Tables

The body of the Alarm History report is a set of tables: one table for each alarm state (active, acknowledged, and cleared). In each table the alarms are listed by severity level. The fields of the tables have a common format, which is described in Table 2.

Table 2: Active Alarm Table Fields

Field	Description
Severity	The severity of the alarm. Severity levels are: Critical—A critical condition exists; immediate action is necessary. Major—A major error has occurred; escalate or notify as necessary. Minor—A minor error has occurred; notify or monitor the condition. Info—An informational message; no action is necessary.
Description	Detailed information about the alarm. This description provides more information about the probable cause or solution for the condition that caused the alarm The description also provides the date and time when the failure was detected. Note the date and time of an alarm so that you can correlate it with error messages or with the messages system log file.
Alarm Name	The SNMP alarm name.
State	State of the alarm. Alarm states are: Active—Alarms that are current and not yet cleared. Cleared—Alarms that are resolved and the device or entity has returned to normal operation. Some alarm states go directly from active to cleared state and require little to no administrative effort. However, other alarms with a high severity should be acknowledged and investigated.
Source	The Entity ID of the network device or the SDG sending the trap.
Acknowledged	Whether or not the alarm has been acknowledged.
Updated On	The date when the alarm was last updated (assigned, annotated, or acknowledged) otherwise, the date the alarm was created.