Something that has alway's given me a problem with any version of Spectrum is overall event/alarm management. It's bad enough that everything is controlled by a series of different text files (which is even more difficult then using a opensource NMS platform) but there is really nothing that comes with the product to really track/display all of these related configurations. The new "ECE editor" for me (which support has told me is not to be trusted) on good day was nothing but fluff it only shows you the logic for one event at a time and does not reference the related alertmap files involved.
For instance... You see an new alarm in Spectrum pop up for the first time. There is no GUI or any kind of interface that traces all the logic behind what Spectrum did behind the scenes to activate that alarm. You have to manually figure out what event(s) are coupled to the alarm. What (if any event rules were in place tied to any number of alarms and/or downstream events) and then go search for the alermap file to figure out what trap the device sent to kick the whole thing off to begin with. Has anyone out there come up with better way to address this (perhaps some kind of perl script, VB event management front end...etc) Thanks for any feedback or suggestions in advance. Andy Stein Duke Medicine Network and System Management Technologies [email protected] Office (919) 681-2739 Mobile (919) 402-7627 --- To unsubscribe from spectrum, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe spectrum [email protected]
