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Managing Alarms and Events

Domain alarm table entries

Thealarmstringsarebasedontheassociatedsensorevents.Textwithinthealarmstring

indicatestheFRUlocation,sensornumber, andseverityofthesensorevent.Thereference

manualsforeachmodulecontaindetailedinformationontheirassociatedsensors.

Thedomainalarmtable(DAT)canholdamaximumof1024alarmentries.Thealarmentries

includesystemalarms,whicharegeneratedautomatically,andanyuser‐definedalarms.

SystemalarmswilldisplayadescriptionofACTIVE(*)wheninanunacknowledgedstate.The

(*)indicatesthatthealarmhasnotyetbeenacknowledged.User‐definedalarms,how ever,

willshowadescriptionofACTIVE()eveninanunacknowledgedstate,becauseitisassumed

theuserisawareoftheconditionthattheydefined.

Assigning event severities

Theeventsgenerate dbysensorsareassignedseveritiesautomatically,butyoucanoverride

thedefaultsettingsbyassigningnewseveritiestospecificeventsgeneratedbyindividual

sensors.Youcanassignseveritiestodiscrete,digital,andOEMsensors(withtheexceptionof

IPMBsensors).

Toassignseverities,addentriestotheShelfManageralarmconfigurationfile

(/etc/shmgralarm.conf)ontheShelfManagermoduleortheSCMhostingtheactiveShelf

Manager.Eachentryappliestoasinglesensor,althoughthesensormayapplytomultipleof

thesametypeofFRUintheshelf.Forexample,achangetotheseverityofafansensorevent

wouldapplytoallofthefansintheshelfifthefansareidenticalandarerunningthesame

firmwareversion.

Asanexampleofaseveritychange,ifthedefaultseverityofmajorforthePEMpowerfault

eventisnotsuitable,itcanbechangedtocritical,minor,orinformational.

Changingtheseverityaffects:

•Theevententryinthedomaineventlogandtheshelf’ssystemeventlog.

•Thepresenceofanalarmandthealarmseverityinthedomainalarmtable.Critical,major,

andminoreventsareincludedintheDATasalarms.InformationalandOK

eventsarenot

includedintheDAT.

•Anyaudiblealarms,LEDs,ordisplaysthatindicatethepresenceofalarmsforthe

platform.

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