Elements

The probe breaks event data down into tokens and parses them into elements. Elements are used to assign values to ObjectServer fields; the field values contain the event details in a form that the ObjectServer understands.

The following table describes the elements that the Probe for Alcatel-Lucent 5620 SAM 3GPP v8 generates. Not all the elements described are generated for each event; the elements that the probe generates depends upon the event type.

Table 1. Elements

Element name

Element description

$AckState

This element indicates whether the alarm has been acknowledged. It can take the following values:

1 - Acknowledged

2 - Unacknowledged

$AckTime

This element displays the time when the alarm was acknowledged.

$AckSytemId

This element indicates the ID of the system from which the alarm was acknowledged.

$AckUserId

This element contains the ID of the user who acknowledged the alarm.

$AdditionalText

This element contains additional information about the alarm.

$AlarmClearedTime

This element displays the time at which the alarm was cleared.

$AlarmId

This element contains the identifier of the alarm.

$AlarmRaisedTime

This element contains the time at which the alarm was raised.

$ChannelID

This element contains the channel through which the alarm was raised.

$ClearUserId

This element displays the ID of the user who cleared the alarm.

$HeartbeatPeriod

This element displays the length of the heartbeat period.

$Event_name

This element indicates the type of the event. It can take the following values:

x1 - Communications

x2 - Processing error

x3 - Environmental

x4 - Quality of service

x5 - Equipment

x6 - Integrity violation

x7 - Operational violation

x8 - Physical violation

x9 - Security service or mechanism violation

x10 - Time domain violation

$EventTime

This element contains the time at which the event occurred.

$ManagedObjectInstance

This element identifies the object on which the alarm occurred.

$ManagerIdenifier

This element identifies the manager that subscribed to receive this notification.

$NotificationId

This element contains the notification ID of the event.

$PerceivedSeverity

This element indicates the perceived severity of the event. It can take the following values:

1 - Indeterminate

2 - Critical

3 - Major

4 - Minor

5 - Warning

6 - Cleared

$ProbableCause

This element indicates the probable cause of the event. For a full list of the probable causes that the probe supports, refer to its rules file.

$SpecificProblem

This element contains additional information about the problem being reported.

$Status

This element indicates the status of the alarm.

$SystemDN

This element contains the distinguished name of the system on which SAM is running.

$TriggerFlag

This element indicates what triggered the alarm.

$Domain_name

This element identifies the category of the event. It can take the following values:

32.111-3 V8.0 - Alarm

32.663 V8.1 - Kernel event

32.353 V8.0 - Communications surveillance event

$Type_name

This element indicates the type of the event being reported. It can take the following values:

x1 - New alarm created

x2 - Changed alarm

x3 - Alarm with acknowledged state changed

x4 - Comment added to an alarm

x5 - Alarm cleared

x6 - Alarm list rebuilt

x7 - Potentially faulty alarm list built