In Spectrum Alarm Notification Manager, if the alarm is cleared within the "Age Time" specified, is the alarm still sent to AlarmNotifier?

Products

• Spectrum
• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

In Spectrum Alarm Notification Manager (SANM), what effect does the "Age Time" have?

For example, if the alarm is cleared before it's age reaches the threshold specified by the "Age Time", is it still sent to AlarmNotifier?

Environment

DX NetOps Spectrum all currently supported releases

Resolution

The "Spectrum Alarm Notification Manager (SANM)" section of the documentation defines the "Age Time" parameter as follows: 

TechDocs : DX NetOps Spectrum 24.3 : Define a Filter For a Policy

Age Time 

(Optional) Indicates the time for which the filter holds the alarm. The alarm passes to the alarm processing application after the age time.

Basically, when the alarm passes a filter, SANM will hold the alarm for the specified time. If the alarm still exists (has not been cleared automatically or by the user) after the time has expired, then SANM will forward the alarm to the AlarmNotifier application for further processing. 

If the alarm has been cleared before the time has expired, SANM will not forward the alarm to the AlarmNotifier application.