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Notifying Users of Events
When a threshold is reached or a system alarm is generated, the alarm appears in the Alarms Inbox of 
the web interface. From this page, you can view the alarm details, add a comment about the alarm, and 
change its status to indicate that it is Acknowledged or Closed. 
The alarm details in this page, wherever applicable, include one...

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Time Display only. Indicates the time of the associated alarm generation in the format Ddd Mmm dd 
hh:mm:ss timezone yyyy, where:
Ddd = Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat.
Mmm = Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec.
dd = A two-digit numeric representation of the day of the month, from 01 to 31.
hh = A two-digit numeric representation of the...

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Configure Incremental Backup Data Repository as Remote Repository otherwise 
backup will fail and Incremental backup mode will be changed to off.Wa r n i n g
Configure Remote Repository under Purge Configuration which is used to take a 
backup of data before purge.Wa r n i n g
View database size exceeds the max limit of maxlimit GB. View database Size is...

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Full Database Purge Backup failed: Exception Details Critical
Incremental Backup Failed: Exception Details Critical
Log Recovery
Log Message Recovery failed: Exception Details Critical
View Compress
Database rebuild operation has started. The Log collector services would be shut 
down during this operation and they would be made up after rebuild operation is...

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Failed to load backup library. Scheduled backup of ACS configuration db failed. 
Please check ADE.log for more details.Critical
Symbol lookup error. Scheduled backup of ACS configuration db failed. Please 
check ADE.log for more details.Critical
Failed to perform ACS backup due to internal error. Please check ADE.log for 
more details.Critical
Disk Size Check...

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NoteACS cannot be used as a remote syslog server. But, you can use an external server as a syslog server. If 
you use an external server as a syslog server, no alarms can be generated in the ACS view as the syslog 
messages are sent to the external syslog server. If you want to generate the alarms in ACS view, set the 
logging option as localhost using CLI.
To...

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Understanding Alarm Schedules
You can create alarm schedules to specify when a particular alarm threshold is run. You can create, edit, 
and delete alarm schedules. You can create alarm schedules to be run at different times of the day during 
the course of a seven-day week.
By default, ACS comes with the non-stop alarm schedule. This...

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Step 3Click Submit to save the alarm schedule.
The schedule that you create is added to the Schedule list box in the Threshold pages.
Assigning Alarm Schedules to Thresholds
When you create an alarm threshold, you must assign an alarm schedule for the threshold. To assign an 
alarm schedule:
Step 1Choose Monitoring and Reports > Alarms > Thresholds.
The Thresholds page...

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Deleting Alarm Schedules
NoteBefore you delete an alarm schedule, ensure that it is not referenced by any thresholds that are defined 
in ACS. You cannot delete the default schedule (nonstop) or schedules that are referenced by any 
thresholds.
To delete an alarm schedule:
Step 1Choose Monitoring and Reports > Alarms > Schedules.
The Alarm Schedules...

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Step 2Do one of the following:
Click Create.
Check the check box next to the alarm that you want to duplicate, then click Duplicate.
Click the alarm name that you want to modify, or check the check box next to the alarm that you 
want to modify, then click Edit.
Check the check box next to the alarm that you want to enable, then click Enable.
Check...