Alarms Overview

Alarms provide information about a system's operational condition, which an operator may need to act upon.

MPE or MRA devices generate Policy Server alarms based on the evaluation of component states and external factors. The servers communicate with each other in a cluster. Each server has a database with merge capabilities to replicate the alarm states to the CMP database. This information is shown on the KPI dashboard or in detailed CMP reports.

As alarms and events are raised on an application or the platform, the SNMP subsystem issues a corresponding trap.

Alarms and Events have the following differences:

Separate traps are sent upon raising an alarm and upon clearing an alarm.

Application traps contain the following variable bindings in addition to the sysOpTime and trapID fields:

Refer to the Policy Management Troubleshooting Reference for more information about Policy Server alarms and traps.

Note: If you encounter an alarm not in this document, contact My Oracle Support (MOS).