| Description | Defined in M.3100 Amendment 3 [M.3100 Amd3], there are five
ARC states: alm, nalm, nalmQI, nalmQICD, and nalmTI.
alm: Alarm reporting is turned on (i.e., is allowed).
nalm: Alarm reporting is turned off (i.e., not allowed).
nalmQI: nalm - Qualified Inhibit. Alarm reporting is
turned off until the managed entity is qualified
problem-free for an optional persistence interval.
Problem-free means that the condition corresponding
to the specified alarm type is cleared.
nalmQICD: nalmQI - Count down. This is a substate of nalmQI
and performs the persistence timing countdown
function after the managed entity is qualified
problem-free.
nalmTI: nalm - Timed Inhibit. Alarm reporting is turned
off for a specified time interval.
alm may transition to nalm, nalmQI or nalmTI by management request.
nalm may transition to alm, nalmQI or nalmTI by management request.
nalmQI may transition to nalm or alm by management request.
nalmQI may transition to alm automatically
if qualified problem-free (if nalmQICD is not supported) or
if the CD timer expired (if nalmQICD is supported)
nalmTI may transition to alm or nalm by management request.
nalmTI may transition to alm automatically if the TI timer expired.
Further details of ARC state transitions are defined in Figure 3
of M.3100 Amd3 [M.3100 Amd3].
According to the requirements in M.3100 Amd3, a resource
supporting the ARC feature shall support the alm state and at
least one of the nalm, nalmTI, and nalmQI states. The nalmQICD
state is an optional substate of nalmQI.
The arcState object controls the alarm reporting state of a
resource. Note that the state alm (alarm reporting is allowed) is
not listed in the enumeration of the value of this object. However,
this state is implicitly supported by the mib.
Once a resource enters the normal reporting mode (i.e., in the alm
state) for the specified alarm type, the corresponding
row will be automatically deleted from the arc table.
Also the manual setting of arcState to alm can be achieved through
setting the RowStatus object to 'destroy'.
The nalamQICD state is a transitional state from nalmQI to alm. It
is optional depending on the resource type and the implementation
of the resource. If it is supported, before the state
transitions from nalmQI to alm, a count down period is activated
for a duration set by the object arcNalmCDTimeInterval. When the
time is up, the arcState transitions to alm. |