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 generates. Not all the elements described are generated for each event; the elements that the probe generates depend on the event type.

Table 1. Elements

Element name

Element description

$AdditionalText

This element contains additional data included in the alarm.

$AlarmClearedTime

This element indicates the time at which the alarm was cleared, for example:

Tue Nov 09 11:32:55 PST 2010

$AlarmId

This element contains the alarm identifier, for example:

SubNetwork=1,ManagedElement=PTH-SDM1-FE1%x1%306%association#ASSO_I_OCK::G3UA#1200

$AlarmRaisedTime

This element indicates the time at which the alarm was created, for example:

Tue Nov 09 11:32:55 PST 2010

$DomainName

This element identifies the 3GPP specification that defines the received event, for example:

32.111 V6.1 (for alarms)

$EventName
This element indicates that the alarm is one of the following types:
  • x1: CommunicationsAlarm
  • x2: ProcessingErrorAlarm
  • x3: EnvironmentalAlarm
  • x4: QualityOfServiceAlarm
  • x5: EquipmentAlarm
  • x6: IntegrityViolation
  • x7: OperationalViolation
  • x8: PhysicalViolation
  • x9: SecurityServiceOrMechanismViolation
  • x10: TimeDomainViolation

$EventTime

This element indicates the time at which the event occurred, for example:

Wed Nov 10 17:05:57 PST 2010

$EventType
This element indicates that the event is one of the following types:
  • x1: NewAlarm
  • x2: ChangedAlarm
  • x3: AckStateChanged
  • x4: CommentAdded
  • x5: ClearedAlarm
  • x6: AlarmListRebuilt
  • x7: PotentialFaultyAlarmList

$ManagedObjectInstance

This element identifies the object for which the alarm occurred, for example:

SubNetwork=1,ManagedElement=PTH-1

$NotificationId

This element contains the notification identifier.

$PerceivedSeverity
This element indicates that the alarm is of one of the following levels of severity:
  • 1 (Indeterminate)
  • 2 (Critical)
  • 3 (Major)
  • 4 (Minor)
  • 5 (Warning)
  • 6 (Cleared)

$ProbableCause

This element indicates the probable cause of the alarm. The rules file, alcatel_xmc_corba.rules, contains a complete list of probable causes.

$SpecificProblem

This element contains additional data that identifies the type of problem that occurred, for example:

LTECellAdminDown

$SystemDn

This element contains the value of the systemDN system parameter.