ACC-ALARMS

Description: Manages alarm monitoring and notification on ACC/Ericsson router/access equipment, providing alarm table entries and trap-based fault reporting.

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ACC-ALARMS is an enterprise MIB from ACC, later part of Ericsson, for alarm monitoring and fault notification on ACC access/routing equipment. It exposes an alarm table (accAlarms) recording active fault conditions on the device, along with SNMP traps notifying a management station when new alarms are raised or cleared. This is explicitly a faults/status MIB: it is the primary mechanism for detecting hardware or software problems on the device, such as interface or hardware failures, as soon as they occur rather than waiting on periodic polling. It typically works alongside the other ACC MIBs, such as ACC-FILESYS and ACC-ATMSLV, which report the specific subsystem state details behind a given alarm. It is deployed on ACC/Ericsson dial-access routers and WAN access equipment where prompt fault notification is critical for service continuity. Engineers can download the ACC-ALARMS file directly to load it into their MIB browser.

A network management station subscribes to traps generated from the accAlarms table and also periodically polls the table directly to reconcile any missed notifications; a new entry appearing in accAlarms indicates a fault condition, such as an interface or hardware failure, that needs investigation. Because the MIB is alarm-table-centric, the key operational signal is the presence, count, and severity of active entries in accAlarms rather than continuous performance counters.

Records network equipment alarms with priority levels, descriptions, and timestamps in Newbridge format.