Alarm Forwarding Architecture

Alarm Forwarding supports the forwarding of alarms to applications in an external system. It supports two protocols for alarm forwarding:

• Traps (SNMP)
• Mails (SMTP)

Alarm Forwarding supports the use of Filters. You can create, edit, and delete a Filter and a forwarding destination. A Filter List provides information for a Filter:

• Rec No - record number; a number given for indexing alarms in the Filter alarm list
• Rule - unique system-generated number that identifies the Filter
• Filter Name - name of the Filter
• Description - description of the Filter
• Destination Name - destination of the filtered alarm. It can be SNMP or SMTP or both.

You can set the forwarding criteria based on the Filters defined for fields such as:

• Ack State
• Alarm Cleared User
• Alarm ID
• Alarm Type
• Managed Object Class
• Managed Object ID
• Perceived Severity ID
• Probable Cause
• Specific Problem
• User Name

Note:

Destination configuration is part of platform configuration. These steps (SMTP server, SNMP version, and target IP) are described in IDIH Installation Document.