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Business Communications Manager - Management User Guide
• Events caused by hardware-related problems, but are not of sufficient severity as to be marked
as an alarm condition. Installers, however, may need to know of these events as they may
indicate a hardware problem (e.g., bad messages received on a signalling channel) or a PSTN-
or private network- related problem (e.g., no battery feed, no dial tone, invalid disconnect
sequence).
• Events that are not of sufficient severity as to marked as an alarm condition, but where the
problem is related to system limits affected by system usage patterns, administration, or lack
of resource. Examples are running out of autodialler/speed dialer bins, LHD nodes, DTMF/
dial tone receivers. These events may not be apparent to users, but a degraded level of service
will likely result.
• Information events, concerning a user action, typically in **ADMIN or **CONFIG. (e.g.,
admin log cleared, user attempted to enter **ADMIN with wrong password).
• Permanent, service affecting events that an installer can rectify. Typically these will also be
alarms, but that is not a prerequisite. An example of the latter is the defaulting of a portion of
administration, without a cold start (installer action: re-administer the data).
MSC (core telephony) logs
Refer to Figure 16 when reviewing the following description:
• MSC logs (item 3) are maintained on the Media Services card, MSC, which is the telephony
side of the Business Communications Manager system.
• The MSC logs are actually a set of three logs, the MSC System Test, MSC System
Administration, and MSC Network Event log. These logs capture all of the core telephony
(MSC) system events, (including alarms). For further information, refer to “Media service
card (core telephony) logs” on page 309.
• Note that core telephony (MSC) events, designated as MSC alarms, are sent to the NT Event
Log in addition to being recorded in the MSC (core telephony) logs (item 4). Also, MSC
events of priority 5 (P5) and higher are sent to the NT Event log (item 4). MSC events are
shown in the BCM alarms under component id “Voice Software”.
NT Event log database
When the alarm service is enabled, all BCM alarms are recorded into the NT Event Log (item 5 of
Figure 16).
For further information about how to view NT Event Logs, see “Obtaining NT Event Logs from
Archlog” on page 327.
Alarm manager
Refer to Figure 16 when reviewing the following description:
• The system forwards events from the NT Event log to the Alarm Manager.
• The Alarm Manager applies system filters based on configuration inputs.
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