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Chapter

Managing Alarms and Events

Thischapterdescribes:

•TheShelfManager’sroleinmanagingalarms.

•Howyoucanchangethealarmreportingbyassigningseveritiestosensorevents.

•TheShelfManagerinteractionswiththealarmfunctionsoftheshelves.

•HowyoucanoverridetheShelfManager’sdefaultuseoftheshelfalarmindicators.

Fortipsonrespondingtospecificalarms,seeChapter6,Troubleshooting,onpage 98.

Shelf Manager role in alarm management

TheShelfManagermonitorsconditionsofmodulesandothershelfcomponentsandcontrols

theiroperationtokeepthemworkingproperly.Itmonitorsthestatusoftheshelfandcorrects

problemswhennecessary.TheShelfManagerreportseventsandanomaliestoasystem

managerandrespondstoactionrequestsfromthesystemmanager.

Aspartofthisfunction,theShelfManagermaintainsthedomainalarmtable(DAT),alistofall

activealarms.Alarmsareadded tothetablewhenaconditionasserts,andareremovedwhen

theconditionde‐asserts.TheShelfManageralsoperformstelcoalarmmanagementas

definedintheAdvancedTCABaseSpecification.

Thehardwareplatforminterface(HPI)providesastandardapplicationprogramminginterface

(API)betweenthesystemmanagerandtheShelfManager.ThisAPIallowsthesystem

managertosubscribetosensorevents,interactwiththeDAT,andreadthedomaineventlog.

Note:ThereisnophysicalalarmsupportontheATCA‐6002shelf.Alarmsarestilladdedtothe

HPIdomainalarmtablebuttherearenophysicalalarmindicators(suchasLEDsoraudible

sounds)available.

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