This section of the document provides information to help you understand why an alarm occurred and to provide a recovery procedure to help correct the condition that caused the alarm.
The information provided about each alarm includes:
Alarm Type: the type of alarm that has occurred. For a list of alarm types, see Alarm and event types.
Description: describes the reason for the alarm
Severity: the severity of the alarm
Instance: the instance of a managed object for which an alarm or event is generated.
Note: The value in the Instance field can vary, depending on the process generating the alarm.
HA Score: high availability score; determines if switchover is necessary
Auto Clear Seconds: the number of seconds that have to pass before the alarm will clear itself.
Note: Some alarms and events have an Auto Clear Seconds of 0 (zero), indicating that these alarms and events do not auto-clear
OID: alarm identifier that appears in SNMP traps
Recovery: provides any necessary steps for correcting or preventing the alarm