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Contents

1 About Alarm Filter Editor................................................................................................................................. 4

2 Opening Alarm Filter Editor............................................................................................................................. 5

3 Creating filter conditions.................................................................................................................................. 6

4 Editing filter conditions.....................................................................................................................................8

4.1 Using drop-down list editor......................................................................................................................8

4.2 Using string editor................................................................................................................................... 8

4.3 Using date and time editor......................................................................................................................9

4.4 Using filter condition editor......................................................................................................................9

4.5 Using enumeration property editor........................................................................................................10

4.6 Using the property editor.......................................................................................................................10

4.7 Using multi value property editor.......................................................................................................... 10

5 Adding patterns..............................................................................................................................................12

6 Deleting filter conditions or patterns..............................................................................................................13


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1 About Alarm Filter Editor

Alarm Filter Editor allows you to design and edit filters for Alarm List, Alarm History and Warning

List tools.

Using Alarm Filter Editor you can:

Create filter conditions

Editing filter conditions

Deleting filter conditions

Adding patterns


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2 Opening Alarm Filter Editor

1. From the Desktop menu, select Tools > Monitoring Desktop > Alarm Filter Explorer.

Alarm Filter Explorer opens.

2. To open the filter

Right-click a filter and select Open.

Or

Double-click a filter.

Expected outcome

Alarm Filter Editor opens.

NOTICE:

By default, all the users can view the filter details, however cannot edit it. In such cases,

the filter is displayed in Read Onlymode.

You can edit (Rename, Delete and change the filter name) using the properties window

in Alarm Filter Explorer , if you have Modify permission.


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3 Creating filter conditions

You can create different types of alarm filters to filter the alarms. A filter condition has three parts:

Name of the filter condition

Operator, for example, '='

Parameter(s)

1. From the NetAct Monitor Tools menu, select Monitoring Desktop > Alarm Filter Explorer.

Alarm Filter Explorer appears.

2. Right-click Alarm pattern and select a filter condition.

A filter condition is created.

3. In the Operator drop-down list, select an operator.

Table: Lst of Operatorsgives the list of operators that you can use.

4. Edit a filter condition based on the type of editor.

For more information on the different types of editors, see Editing filter conditionson page 8.

Remember:

While defining an alarm pattern, either the Distinguished Name or the Working Set

Name can be used. Both cannot be used together.

In the pop-up menu, the attribute names are displayed in the same order as in the

relevant Properties tool.

You can apply the Quick filter on alarms based on Invalid Probable Cause Code

in Alarm Tools (Alarm List, Warning List and Alarm History), but the Alarm Pat-

terns cannot be defined with the same.

5. From File menu, select Save.

Expected outcome

The filter is created and saved.


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Note:

A filter gets saved even if one or more fields are invalid, however, when the filter is ap-

plied, it gives an error message.

Table 1: List of operators

Operator Description Example

= All entries that exactly match the

filter condition are included

Object name = test

< All entries with a value less than

that of the filter condition are in-

cluded

< = All entries with a value less than

or equal to the filter condition are

included

> All entries with a value greater

than that of the filter condition are

included

> = All entries with a value greater

than or equal to the filter condition

are included

Between All entries that are between the

two specified values

This operator excludes the values

that are not equal to the specified

filter condition

In This operator works similar to the

= operator, but allows to include

multiple terms in the Parameter

field

Like This operator performs full text

search against the specified fil-

ter condition and tries to find the

most relevant matches. Include

wildcard * (asterisk) and & (and)

for better search functionality.

Not Like This operator checks for any pos-

sible filter condition and excludes

that in the result. Include wildcard

* (asterisk) and & (and) for better

For text fields, these operators

refer to the alphabetical order

of the values. When you select

Object Name > and select a

name, the filter includes all ob-

jects where the object name

falls alphabetically after the se-

lected name.


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4 Editing filter conditions

Parameter values for certain conditions are edited in different editors. The type of editor depends on

the selected operator. The following are the different types of editors:

Drop-down list editor

String editor

Date and Time editor

Filter condition editor

Enumeration property editor

Range property editor

Multi-value property editor

4.1 Using drop-down list editor

1. Right-click Alarm pattern and select a filter condition (For example, Alarm Type).

2. From the operator drop-down list, select an operator for the condition.

3. In the parameter drop-down list, select the required parameter.

4. From the File menu, select Save.

Expected outcome

The filter condition is saved.

4.2 Using string editor

1. Right-click Alarm pattern and select a filter condition (For example, Alarm Text).

2. In the operator drop-down list, choose an operator for the condition.

3. On the corresponding condition, click the custom editor button.


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Alarm Text dialog appears.

4. In the Alarm Text dialog, enter the text.

5. Click OK.

Expected outcome


4.3 Using date and time editor

1. Right-click Alarm pattern and select a filter condition (For example, Acknowledgement Time/

Unacknowledgement Time).

2. From the operator drop-down list, choose an operator for the condition.

3. On the corresponding condition, click the custome editor.

Acknowledgement Time/UnAcknowledgement Time dialog appears.

4. Select date and time.

5. Click Ok.

Expected outcome


4.4 Using filter condition editor

1. Right-click Alarm pattern and select a filter condition(For example: Alarm Type).

2. From the operator drop-down list, choose an operator for the condition.

3. In editor, enter the parameter.

4. Click Ok.

Expected outcome

Filter condition is saved.


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4.5 Using enumeration property editor

1. Right-click Alarm pattern and select a filter condition (For example, Object Class).

2. From the operator drop-down list, choose a comparison operator for the condition.

3. On the corresponding condition, click custom editor button.

Object Class dialog appears.

4. From the Available Items list, select an item and click .

Selected item is moved to Selected Items.

Note:

Using enumeration property editor, you can set the filter condition only for Object

Class. This lists all the available Object Classes for selection.

You can also search the items using Find option.

5. Click OK.

Expected outcome


4.6 Using the property editor

1. Right-click Alarm pattern and select a filter condition (For example: Alarm number).

2. From the operator drop-down list, choose between as an operator condition.

3. Enter the start value in first text field and end value in the second text field.

4. From the File menu, select Save.

Expected outcome



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4.7 Using multi value property editor

1. Right-click Alarm pattern and select a filter condition (For example: Object class).

2. From the operator drop-down list, choose in as an operator condition.

3. On the corresponding condition, click custom editor button.

4. Click OK.

Expected outcome



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6 Deleting filter conditions or patterns

Deleting Filter condition

Right-click a filter condition and select Remove condition.

Deleting Alarm pattern Filter condition

Right-click an Alarm pattern and select Remove pattern.

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