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TCAPAlarmControl

Description

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

Prototype

S16 TCAPAlarmControl (U8 board, U8 alarmLvl )

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

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


  #define TCAP_ALARMLVL_DIS       0
  #define TCAP_ALARMLVL_DFLT      1
  #define TCAP_ALARMLVL_DEBUG     2
  #define TCAP_ALARMLVL_DETAIL    3

Return Values

Details

The following table defines the TCAP alarm levels and their recommended usage:
Alarm Levels

 Usage

TCAP_ALARMLVL_DIS

 All alarms disabled (not recommended for use)

TCAP_ALARMLVL_DFLT

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

TCAP_ALARMLVL_DEBUG

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

TCAP_ALARMLVL_DETAIL

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

All alarm messages are sent to the MS DOS utility txalarm.


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