Network Management System User’s Manual

PAS/PIDS alarms management software developed by ELNO

Network Management System

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This manual was written from the software version 0.1.1 of the Network Management System.

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Contents

Introduction ................................................................................................... 2

Overview of the main screen page .............................................................. 3

Settings .......................................................................................................... 4

Display of the alarms list .............................................................................. 6

Filtering the alarms list ................................................................................. 7

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Introduction
The Network Management System software receives alarm information from equipment linked to the network. All
these alarms are displayed on one screen page.

The software makes it possible to:

 Inform the operator of new alarms.
 Visualize each alarm on one line with specific information such as location of the equipment, date and time of
the first occurrence.
 Filter the alarms by using one or more criteria and display the result.
 Export the alarms list to an XML format file.

Note: All the alarms managed by the Network Management System (NMS) depend on the PAS/PIDS hardware and
network. Therefore, the screens showing the Man Machine Interface of the NMS in this document are only shown as
examples and may differ from the screens of your actual system.
The exact list of alarms corresponding to your actual system may be included as an appendix of this document.

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Overview of the main screen page

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The main screen page is composed of the following:

1. Filter Menu bar: Selection of the criteria for the display of alarms list.
2. Settings Menu bar.
3. Display of the alarms list.

About the display of the alarms list:

The display order of the list is the date and time of the first occurrence of each alarm.
When a new alarm is taken into account by the software, the alarm is immediately added at the end of the list (date
and time of the first occurrence).
When the same alarm appears again after the first occurrence, only the counter is incremented. When an alarm was
inactive and becomes active again, the date and time are updated according to the date and time of its reactivation.

Purge of the alarms:

The alarms list is verified every day at a configurable time (default verification time is midnight) in order to identify
the expired alarms.
All the alarms which reached the expiration period (default expiration period is 14 days) are purged from the list.

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Settings

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The following settings and functions are available:

1. Force the refresh of the alarms list.
2. Display the active alarms list or the inactive alarms list.
3. Local sound alarm: enabled or disabled.
4. Export all the alarms into an XML file, regardless of the applied filters.

It is possible to force the refresh of the alarms list at any time.

Action: Left click
Note: the alarms list is automatically refreshed every 10 seconds (configurable parameter).

It is possible to only display the active alarms or inactive alarms.

Active alarm: The alarm was reported to the NMS and is still ongoing.
Inactive alarm: The end of the alarm was reported to the NMS.

Left click on the red button to display active alarms

Left click on the white button to display the inactive alarms

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 It is possible to broadcast a local warning tone at each new alarm displayed into the list:

Warning tone disabled

Warning tone enabled

Left click on the button to open a directory window. Select the directory and the name of the
file. Click on Save to save all the alarms into the file.

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Display of the alarms list
The following table provides information about each alarm message:

Information for each alarm message:

 Description of the alarm: denomination of the alarm.
 Severity: Minor or Major; defines the severity level of the alarm.
 Source: Kind of equipment which generated the alarm.
 Date: Date of the first occurrence of the alarm. The date does not change if the same alarm occurs again
later on. See active/inactive alarms.
 Time: Time of the first occurrence of the alarm. The time does not change if the same alarm occurs again
later on. See active/inactive alarms.
 Location: Generally, physical location of the cause of the alarm.
 Count: Number of occurrences for the same alarm. See active/inactive alarms.

Major/Minor Alarms:
Minor alarms are displayed with a yellow
indicator

Major alarms are displayed with a red indicator

Acknowledgment of the alarm:

The last column is about the acknowledgment of the alarm.

An operator can acknowledge an alarm anytime; he may do so in order to indicate that the alarm has been taken into
account and that corrective actions are in progress. It is only used as an indication.

For acknowledging an alarm, tick the checkbox .

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Filtering the alarms list
Six filter criteria are available on the top of the main screen page.

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The following criteria are available:

1. Display the alarms list following the severity level of the alarm: Minor or/and Major.
2. Display the alarms list according to the source selected via a drop-down list.
3. Display the alarms list starting from a selected date, between two dates or before a selected date.
4. Display the alarms list starting from a selected time, between two times or before a selected time.
5. Display the alarms list according to the location selected via a drop-down list.
6. Display of the acknowledged/unacknowledged alarms.

Two control buttons are also available:

7. A reset filter button in order to deactivate all the selected filter criteria.
8. A button to apply the filter criteria and display the result.

Filtering by Severity criterion

It is possible to filter the Minor, Major or Minor + Major alarms.
Click on a button to apply the criterion. In this case, the button appears smaller.

Ex: Minor and Major buttons selected. The same filter is applied when any button is selected.

Ex: Minor button selected.

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Filtering by Source
It is possible to filter the alarms coming from the same source.
Select a source from the scrolling menu. Blank line: no source selected.

The sources may vary regarding the system to supervise.

For more details about the sources related to your system, please check the alarms list
provided as an appendix to this document.

Filtering by Date
It is possible to filter the alarms following a date.
Format of the date: DD/MM/YYYY
Enter the date manually.

Ex: Filtering from a selected date. Displaying of the alarms from the selected date to the
current date.

Filtering by Time
It is possible to filter the alarms following a time.
Format of the date: hh:mm
Enter the time manually.
Ex: Filtering between two times. If no date is selected, all the alarms between the two
selected times are displayed whatever the date.

Filtering only from a selected time is equivalent to filter from the selected time to 23:59
whatever the date.
Filtering only before a selected time is equivalent to filter from 00:00 to the selected time
whatever the date.

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Filtering by Date and Time
It is possible to filter the alarms following a date and time.
In this case, the filtering is applied from a start date and time and an
end date and time.

Ex: Filtering from a selected date and time. Displaying of the alarms
from the selected date and time to the current date and time.

Filtering by Location
It is possible to filter the alarms coming from the same location.
Select a location from the scrolling menu. Blank line: no location selected.

The locations may vary regarding the system to supervise.

Filtering by Acknowledgment
It is possible to filter the alarms which are acknowledged or not.
Tick the checkbox Yes or/and No.

Ex: Only the acknowledged alarms are displayed.

Ex: Only the unacknowledged alarms are displayed.

Example of alarms list with applied criteria:

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