Alarm event elements

The probe generates a standard set of elements for each alarm event that it receives.

The following table describes the elements that are generated for alarm event elements.

Table 1. Alarm event elements 

Element name

Element description

$ALA_alarmType

This element indicates the alarm type.

$ALA_OLC

This element indicates the OLC state of the object associated to the event. A value of zero (0) indicates no state for the object.

$ALA_application

This element shows the tag associated with the application.

$ALA_span

This element contains the span of control ID list.

$ALA_isCorr

This element shows the isCorrelated flag. A value of true indicates that the alarm is correlated at the creation time to another alarm.

$MTOSI_aliasNameList

This element indicates the alias for the alarm name.

$MTOSI_perceivedSeverity

This element indicates the severity of the alarm.

$MTOSI_probableCause

This element identifies the probable cause of the alarm.

$MTOSI_serviceAffecting

This element identifies whether the alarm is service affecting.