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26.2 Alerter Editor

26.2.1 Open Alerter Editor
To open the Alerter Editor, in the "Alcatel-Lucent Analysis Desktop" window:

Click on the icon, OR

Select Alerter -> Alerter....

The "Alerter Editor" window opens.

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26.2.2 Create Alerter

To create an alerter:

1. In the "Alerter Editor" window, click on .

The "Alerter Type" window appears.

2. Select the appropriate alerter type you want to create, then click on [ OK ].
The "Alerter Editor" window appears with default values and editable fields.
3. Fill in the appropriate fields, as described in the following table.

Field Name Description Default Value

Name Name of the alerter to be created. Alerter_<owner> _n

A maximum of 64 characters are allowed. where<owner> is
the owner of the
alerter, and "n" is an
incremental number to
define a unique name

Owner User who is creating the alerter. The username you

logged in the NPO
This field is read-only.
application

Created Date when the alerter was created. Creation date

This field is read-only.

Modified Date when the alerter was last modified, in case of an alerter Modification date
update.
This field is read-only.

Alerter Type Defines the selected alerter type in the editor.The possible types User selected type
are: Standard, Variation, and Complex.
This field is read-only.

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Field Name Description Default Value

Indicator Drag the appropriate indicator from the Indicators tab in the
right frame, and drop it in the Indicator field.
This field must be filled in only in the case of Standard and
Variation alerters.
Note: Only indicators with a defined threshold are droppable
in the Indicator field.

Periodicity Periodicity for alerter evaluation. First supported

periodicity
It can be:

Indicator supported periodicity, for Standard or Variation

alerter
The possibilities for the periodicity depend on the availability
domain of the chosen indicator.

Formula supported, for Complex alerter.

The possible types are: Hour, Day, Week, Month.
If the periodicity is not supported by the indicator or formula for
complex alerters, then Periodicity is grayed.

QoS Describes the alerter QoS requirement. Retrieved from User

Requirement Preference / Working
The possible types are: Low, Medium, High.
Zone QoS requirement
value

Description Text box to be filled in with operator description for the current
alerter.

4. In the alerter severity panel, select the needed tab(s): Critical, Major,
Warning, Cleared. The displayed fields to update vary depending on the
Alerter Type.
At least one severity must be chosen for the created alerter.
For Standard Alerter

Select the Color criteria of the alerter from the drop-down list. The
possible colors are Red, Orange, Yellow, and Green.
The default values are: Red for Critical, Orange for Major, Yellow for
Minor, Green for Cleared.
For standard alerters, value Free also appears in the list. This is used if
you want to choose your own threshold value.
Select the appropriate Stability.

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The periodicity unit is automatically updated whenever the Periodicity

field value changes.

If the alerter will use sampling, check the Use Sampling checkbox.
If the sampling is not supported by the selected indicator, the checkbox is
grayed.

For Variation Alerter

Select the Evolution for threshold: Degradation or Improvement.

Degradation (default) means that the user will be warned when the
quality drops by x%, whereas improvement means the user will be
warned when the quality improves by x%.
Select the appropriate Observation period of the selected alerter
with respect to periodicity.

Select the appropriate Smoothing Period. This represents the number

of periods needed to compute the first and last value of the curve.
The value of Smoothing Period must be lesser than the Observation
period value.
Refer to Types, Severities and States (Section 26.1.2) for more
information about this option.

Select Hour or Day in the drop-down list. This enables to define

the variation alerter according to the comparison of the last hourly
(respectively daily) value of the indicator with the indicator value at same
type of periodicity (hourly, respectively daily) but for n observation
period unit ago.
For instance, the hourly value 30 hours ago or the hourly value at same
hour but 10 days ago, or the daily value 7 days ago or the daily value
at same day but 3 weeks ago.
All the observation period limits are configurable in Analysis Desktop
properties file.

Select the Smooth only with past values. This means that smoothing
period is only used in old (past) values to calculate the first value.

Select the Delta in percentage. This defines the delta that is used to
determine if an alert needs to be generated. The value can be positive
or negative.

Select the appropriate Algorithm from the drop-down box, needed

for the computation of the variation alerter. The possible values are:
Avarage, Max, Min, Sum.

For Complex Alerter

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In the Formula field, drag and drop the appropriate indicators and
mathematical/logical/comparison operators from the right frame, to
create the appropriate formula. This must be done for each severity.
Click on [ Check Formula ] to validate the formula. If errors occur,
re-attempt to create a correct formula.

Select the appropriate Stability.

The periodicity unit is automatically updated whenever the periodicity
changes.

5. Select the appropriate Repetition time for the selected alerter.

The Repetition time is the evaluation period of the alerters.
The periodicity unit is automatically updated whenever the periodicity
changes.
6. In case of Hour or Day periodicity, select the appropriate Data Validity
Period.
The period of validity is a time interval during the day or a list of days, in
which the alerter can be evaluated.
For example: If you choose for Data Validity Period: 1H and for Repetition:
1H, then the alerters are evaluated at every 1 hour. If you choose for
Data Validity Period: 1H and for Repetition: 12H, then the alerters are
evaluated at every 12 hours.
7. Check [ Activate on apply ] if you want the alerter to be automatically
activated after its creation.
8. Check [ Automatic Clear ] if you want all the alerts to be cleared when the
alerter state is changed to inactive.
9. During an alerter severity evaluation, if the alerter can not be evaluated,
either because the value of the indicator is null or Nerr, or the complex
formula results is null or Nerr value, if [ Raise alert on error/no data cases ]
is checked, an alert is generated for the current severity and the alerter
evaluation ends. If [ Raise alert on error/no data cases ] is not checked, no
alert is generated and the alerter evaluation continues with the next severity.
10. The Object Type is automatically filled in when selecting the indicator, or in
case of Complex alerters, from formula.
In case several options are available in a drop-down box, select the
needed one.
This does not display the zone object types.
11. Drag the appropriate network objects from the topology tab tree (in the right
frame) and drop them in the Network Objects panel.
The selected objects will be evaluated in the alerter.
12. If you want the alerter to be evaluated for the whole Working Zone, check
[ Entire Working Zone: Global ].

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When this is selected, the Topology tab from the right frame is disabled.

13. Click on .
14. Click on [ Yes ] at the confirmation message.
The alerter is created and the tree in the Alerter mode is refreshed.
Note: All the created alerters are only available on the Analysis Desktop client,
and not on the NPO server. To send all the created alerts to
the NPO server, make sure the GENERATE_ALARAM
variable is set to true value (this is the default value), in
the AlerterResourceFile.cfg file located in the
/alcatel/muse/MUSE_MAAT/alerter/rsc/com/alcatel/muse/maat/alerter
directory.

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26.2.3 Create Alerter by Copy

To copy an alerter:
1. In the Alerter Editor, select the alerter you want to copy from the left frame,
then click on .
The Alerter Properties panel appears with the default name and properties
of the selected alerter.
2. Define a name for the copied alerter, using the following format:
<oldname_Copy_n>, where n is a incremental unique number.
3. Perform the appropriate modifications for the new alerter.
4. Click on [ Apply ].
5. In the confirmation window, click on [ Yes ].

26.2.4 Edit Alerter

To edit an alerter:
1. In the Alerter Editor, select the alerter you want to edit from the left frame,
then click on .
The Alerter Properties panel appears.
2. Edit the appropriate values.
The following fields are read-only:

Name
Owner

Created

Modified

Alerter Type

3. Click on [ Apply ].

26.2.5 Delete Alerter

Only the owner or the administrator can delete alerters.
To delete an alerter:
1. In the Alerter Editor, select the alerter(s) to be deleted.

2. Click on .
3. In the deletion confirmation window, click on [ Yes ].
All the alerts associated with the deleted alerter are removed.
All the removed alerters and alerts are logged.

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