Symmetricom 1100 User Manual

Chapter 4 Provisioning the TimeProvider
Provisioning Alarms

126  TimeProvider User’s Guide

This section describes how you provision and manage alarms in the TimeProvider. 
There are TL1 commands that allow you to:

Provision individual alarm levels

Provision system-wide alarm levels

Display current alarm settings

Display current alarms

Display alarm status

Alarms are displayed on the IMC or IMC/TPIU LEDs; they also appear on the relay 
contact closures on the Input module.

Use the SET-ATTR command to set the alarms associated with the IMC and IOC. 
You can use this command to reset all alarm levels to the factory default values, and 
to allow the TimeProvider to escalate alarms. 

 lists the alarms, a brief 

description of each alarm, and it’s default parameters. 

SET-ATTR:[<tid>]:<aid>:[<ctag>]::<keyword>[=<value>];

This command has a default access level of ADMIN.

SYS

ELEVTIME

ENABLE | DISABLE (default)

Allow alarms to escalate from 
Minor to Major and from 
Major to Critical

FACTORY

Set the alarm levels to factory 
default values

SYS
IMC
IOC
PRS
INPp (p = 1 | 2)

Alarm ID

NR = Not Reported
NA = A non-alarm event
MN = Minor alarm
MJ = Major alarm
CR = Critical alarm
CLEAR = Clears an active 
alarm; if the condition persists, 
then the alarm is reissued

See the definitions for the 
Alarm ID in the following table