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SccpAlarmControl

Description

Controls the level of alarms generated by the SCCP task on the TX Series processor.

Prototype

SCCP_STATUS SccpAlarmControl (U8 board, U8 alarmLvl )

board The TX Series board number to which this request is directed.

alarmLvl The desired new alarm level. TCAP defines the following alarm levels (see Details below):


                                #define SCCP_ALARMLVL_DISABLE  0
                                #define SCCP_ALARMLVL_DEFAULT  1
                                #define SCCP_ALARMLVL_DEBUG    2
                                #define SCCP_ALARMLVL_DETAIL   3

Return Values

Details

The following table defines the SCCP alarm levels and their recommended usage.
Alarm Level

Description

SCCP_ALARMLVL_DISABLE

All alarms disabled (not recommended for use)

SCCP_ALARMLVL_DEFAULT

Default alarm level; Service impacting events (application/SSN unavailable, resource failures, application interface violations) are logged.

SCCP_ALARMLVL_DEBUG

All level 1 alarms plus detailed message encoding/decoding diagnostics to troubleshoot individual application/transaction problems (primarily for use during application development).

SCCP_ALARMLVL_DETAIL

All level 2 alarms plus some normal events to help isolate network or application problems (not for use under production load conditions)

All SCCP alarms are sent to the MS-DOS utility txalarm.



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