Handling Device Alarms

DSC lists the detected device alarms. You can click Ignore or Mark as handled to handle the alarms.

Figure 1 shows how a device alarm is reported.

Figure 1 Device alarm reporting process
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No alarm is generated for devices whose Status is Lost or New.

You have added a device, and the Huawei agent plug-in is running on the third-party device.

Choose Third-Party Device Management > Device Alarm. The Device Alarm page is displayed.

**Table 1** Device alarm list
Parameter	Description
Device Name/IP Address	Name and IP address of a device.
Type	Devices can be classified into the following types: Application data audit Application data security gateway Database firewall Database encryption Static database masking Dynamic database masking
Type	Device alarms are classified into the following types: (Alarm types sent by devices are determined by devices.) System alarm: alarms related to device system information (CPU and memory) Service alarms: alarms related to device functions.
Severity	There are 5 alarm severity levels: Critical Major Minor Suggestion Unknown
Alarm Time	Time when an alarm is generated on a device.
Status	The alarm status can be Unhandled. When you click Ignore or Mark as Handled, the alarm disappears. This does not affect other alarms of the same type.
Description	Description of an alarm.

Select one or more preprocessed alarms and click Ignore or Mark as Handled in the upper left corner of the alarm list.

Alarms that are ignored or marked as handled will not be displayed. Exercise caution when performing this operation.