Variables Used in GUI Notification Format Descriptions

Table 1 shows the possible values and meanings for each of the variables shown in format definitions for GUI notifications.

Variables Used in GUI Notifications

Field

Description

<Severity>

Indicates seriousness of event, using both text and color, as follows:

Text

Color

Meaning

[Critical]

Red

Reports a serious condition that requires immediate attention

[Major]

Yellow

Reports a moderately serious condition that should be monitored, but does not require immediate attention

[Minor] Turquoise Reports a condition of minor significance that should be monitored, but which does not require immediate attention.

[Cleared]

Green

Reports status information or the clearing of a condition that caused previous posting of a [Critical] or [Major] GUI notification

[EVENT]

White

For information only

<Time Stamp>

Indicates time that the event was detected, in format:

YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss where fields are as follows:

Field

Meaning

Possible Values

YYYY

Year

Any four digits

MM

Month

01 through 12

DD

Day

01 through 31

hh

Hour

00 through 23

mm

Minute

00 through 59

ss

Second

00 through 59

<Event Number>

Four-digit number that identifies the specific GUI notification (also indicates the type of GUI notification, as shown in Table 1 ).

<Message Text String>

Text string (which may contain one or more variables defined in Table 1 ) that provides a small amount of information about the event. For more information about the event, look up the corresponding event number in this appendix; for each event number, this appendix shows the text string as it appears in a GUI notification, as well as a more detailed explanation and suggested recovery.

<CLLI>

Used in all EMS GUI notifications to indicate the Common Language Location Identifier for the network element where the EMS resides.

<EventType>: <EventData1>, [<EventData2>],...

Optional event data fields, as indicated by square brackets around the field, included in GUI notifications with severity [EVENT]. If no data is available for a given field, the field is empty. If other fields follow an empty field, the empty field is indicated by consecutive commas with no intervening data. One of the optional fields in an event notification is an effective timestamp field. This field indicates the time that the event actually occurred. When present, it uses the ASN.1 Generalized Time format.