Table Of Contents
About This Guide
About This Guide
This guide includes the following chapters:
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Chapter 1, "Fault Management Overview"—Describes how to manage events, and introduces some of the key concepts of Cisco ANA alarm management. In addition, it describes unreachable network elements and the sources of alarms on devices. In addition, it describes alarm integrity and the integrity service.
•Chapter 2, "Causality Correlation and Root Cause Analysis"—Describes how Cisco ANA performs correlation logic decisions.
•Chapter 3, "Advanced Correlation Scenarios"—Describes specific alarms which use advanced correlation logic on top of the root cause analysis flow.
•Chapter 4, "Working with Unmanaged Segments"—Describes how Cisco ANA performs correlation decisions over unmanaged segments.
•Chapter 5, "Impact Analysis"—Describes the impact analysis functionality available in Cisco ANA.
•Appendix A, "Supported Service Alarms"—Provides the list of service alarms that are supported in Cisco ANA.
•Appendix B, "Source OIDs of Alarms Generated by Cisco ANA"—Describes the possible source oids of alarms generated by Cisco ANA. For each possible source oid, additional information is given, mainly the oid structure, and some example of oids and service alarms that use these oids as there source.
•Appendix C, "Event and Alarm Configuration Parameters"—Describes the details of various configurable alarm parameters.
•Appendix D, "Cisco ANA Integrity Service"—Describes how auto archiving is performed by the integrity service process.
Intended Audience
This guide is intended for networking engineers who are interested in understanding how the Cisco ANA fault and root cause analysis mechanism works.
Prerequisites Skills and Knowledge
The following prerequisite skills and knowledge is required:
•Networking knowledge, CCNA level.
•Cisco ANA basic and admin training.
Applicable Version
This guide relates to Cisco ANA 3.6 Service Pack 2.
Conventions Used in this Guide
The following conventions are used in this guide:
Table i-1 Guide Conventions
Convention
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Description
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Square brackets (used in the examples) enclose either:
•The event and the location of the event
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•The event only.
Note: This convention is used specifically in Chapter 3, "Advanced Correlation Scenarios".
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Courier font text indicates commands and keywords that the user enters.
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