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Business Communications Manager - Management User Guide
Access and Configure the Alarm System
The alarm service works to generate SNMP trap event notifications. You must also enable and
configure SNMP traps. The Business Communications Manager alarm service performs the
following functions:
• Monitors Windows NT event logs for incoming events.
• Synchronizes Windows NT logs with Business Communications Manager alarm database.
• Receives events (alarms) from other Business Communications Manager applications through
its API and logs the events in the Business Communications Manager database.
• Archives alarm history based on the criteria defined in Alarm Manager.
• Monitors the alarm configuration changes and updates SNMP trap agent and Alarm Service.
Note: When the alarm service is enabled, the Business Communications Manager system
automatically archives the BCM Event logs. See “Enabling the alarm service” on page
66.
Note: The alarm service is disabled by default. You must enable the alarm service to
view alarms on the alarm banner (see “Enabling the alarm service” on page 66).
Note: You must configure how the system handles SNMP trap notifications. Events
arriving in the alarm database trigger an SNMP trap message to be generated. If you do
not configure SNMP traps, you will not obtain optimum alarm reporting capability.
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