Viewing Current Alarms

Most Silver Peak appliance alarms cannot be cleared by the user. Instead, the appliance generally corrects the alarm condition and clears the alarm by itself.

The alarm summary appears in the banner. You can view current alarms as follows:

The Alarm - Current Alarms page displays the following information:

Field	Definition/Content
Seq No.	The sequential number of the alarm, based on the time the alarm raised.
Date/Time	The local date and time at the appliance’s location, specified by a 24-hour clock.
Type	The type of alarm: • Tunnel A tunnel-based alarm • TC A traffic class-based alarm • EQU An equipment-based alarm • SW A code- or software-based alarm
Severity	The severity of the alarm, listed here in decreasing order of severity: • Critical A critical alarm, such as “Tunnel Down” • Major A major alarm, such as “Disk out of Service” • Minor A minor alarm, such as “Disk Degraded” • Warning A warning, such as “Software Process Restart” • Info For Silver Peak debugging purposes. These are purely related to alarms severities, not event logging levels, even though some of the naming conventions overlap. Events and alarms have different sources. Alarms, once they clear, list as the ALERT level in the Alarms - Log Viewer page.
Source	Refers to the particular subsystem or equipment that is causing the alarm. For example, we can raise the tunnel-based alarm, “Tunnel Down”, where the source would refer to a particular tunnel.
Description	A brief description of the alarm.
Recommended Action	Describes what action to take and, when appropriate, provides a link to the page where you need to do it.
Clear	If a checkbox is accessible, a user can clear the alarm. To clear the alarm, click the Clear box, and click Apply. Once cleared, the row is removed and the content is viewable in the read-only page, Alarms - Log Viewer.
Ack	Select Yes to acknowledge the alarm; Select No to remove acknowledgement.

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