Alarm Inventory

The alarm inventory contains a list of system default alarms.

The following tables describe various parameters in alarm inventory.

Table 1. Alarm severity
Severity Enum Description
Critical 6 Service-affecting condition which requires an immediate corrective action.
Major 5 Service-affecting condition which requires an urgent corrective action.
Minor 4 Non-service-affecting condition which requires a corrective action.
Warning 3

Potential service-affecting fault which requires further diagnosis to prevent serious consequences.

Indeterminate 2

Severity level cannot be determined.

Note: This severity must be avoided.
Cleared 1

Alarm is cleared by the system.

Note: This severity level is only applicable to the “StatusChange” list severity.
Table 2. Alarm types
Types Enum Description
Other 1

Indicates a catch-all category for alarms.

Note: Avoid this alarm type if other alarm types are applicable.
Communications 2 Indicates a communication related issue
QualityOfService 3 Indicates a quality related issue
Processing 4 Indicates a software processing issue
Equipment 5 Indicates faulty equipment
Environmental 6 Indicates an issue related to the enclosure housing the equipment
Integrity 7 Indicates duplicate, missing, modified, unexpected, or out of sequence information
Operational 8 Indicates that the provisioning of the requested service was not possible due to unavailability or malfunction of the service
Physical 9 Indicates cable tampering or intrusion
Security 10 Indicates a security violation such as authentication failure or unauthorized access attempt
TimeDomain 11 Indicates that an event has occurred at an unexpected or prohibited time
Fabric 12 Indicates a fabric-service related issue
Tenant 13 Indicates a tenant-service related issue
Policy 14 Indicates a policy-service related issue
Table 3. Alarm inventory
Alarm Name ID Type Max Alarm Instances Description Severity Will Clear Action
Certificate Expiration 32000 Security 7 (application certificate types) Raise an alarm to notify that an XCO certificate is about to expire or has expired. Warning / Critical True Notify APP_ALARMS syslog / webhook
Device Certificate Expiration 32001 Security Number of Devices * 3 (device certificate types) Raise an alarm to notify that a device certificate is about to expire or has expired. Warning / Critical True Notify APP_ALARMS syslog / webhook
Login Authentication 32010 Security Number of Users*

* Includes existing and non-existing application users.

Raise an alarm to notify suspicious login activity. Warning (Only) False Notify APP_ALARMS syslog / webhook
Storage Utilization 32040 Processing Number of Nodes * 2 (monitored mount points) Raise an alarm to notify storage utilization for XCO installation has reached a certain threshold or it is full. Warning - Critical

(All severities between Warning and Critical are possible)

True Notify APP_ALARMS syslog / webhook
Table 4. Associated alerts for alarms
Associated Alerts Associated Alarms Severity Description
CertificateExpiryNoticeAlert Certificate Expiration Warning

Expiration of an XCO certificate within 90 days

CertificateExpiredAlert Certificate Expiration Critical

XCO certificate has expired

CertificateRenewalAlert Certificate Expiration Cleared XCO certificate renewal
DeviceCertificateExpiryNoticeAlert Device Certificate Expiration Warning

Expiration of a device certificate within 90 days

DeviceCertificateExpiredAlert Device Certificate Expiration Critical

Device certificate has expired

DeviceCertificateRenewalAlert Device Certificate Expiration Cleared Device certificate renewal
LoginFailureAlert Login Authentication Warning

5 successive failed login attempts within a minute

Note: System does not clear the alarm.
StorageUtilizationThresholdAlert Storage Utilization Warning

File system utilization is 75% - 84%

Storage Utilization Minor

File system utilization is 85% - 94%

Storage Utilization Major

File system utilization is 95% - 96%

Storage Utilization Critical

File system utilization is 97% - 100%

StorageUtilizationFullAlert Storage Utilization Critical

File system utilization is 97% - 100%

StorageUtilizationCheckAlert Storage Utilization Cleared

File system utilization is below 75%

Maximum Alarm Instance

The maximum alarm instance calculation is as follows:

CertificateExpiration Instances) + (DeviceCertificateExpiration Instances) + (LoginAuthentication  Instances) + (StorageUtilization Instances) =
(7) + (20 * 3) + (10) + (2 * 2) = 81