With the Statistics Alarm application you can define your own alarms based on when certain protocol messages, or transactions, are detected, either on first occurrence, or when a certain number of messages, or transactions, have been detected during a specified time interval. The alarms can then be sent either to the Network Status application, or to any third party Network Management application. This allows you to take immediate action when certain types of traffic are detected in your network.

Defining your own alarms
Different filter criteria can be used for setting up your own alarms, based on either protocol messages or calls/transactions. For each alarm you can decide if you want to receive an alarm on first occurrence, or if you want to receive an alarm when a certain number of occurrences have been detected during a set time interval. You can also select to have the alarm automatically cleared once the number of occurrences goes below the set threshold.

When setting up the alarms, you select if you wish to base the alarm on protocol messages or calls/transactions, and then you can apply different filter settings:

• Traffic group filter – messages/transactions passing the links in the selected traffic group(s) will pass the filter
• Protocol filter – messages/transactions for the selected protocol(s) will pass the filter
• Link filter – messages/transactions for the selected link(s) will pass the filter
• Parameter filters – messages/transactions matching the set parameter values (settings for wildcards, ranges, non-existent parameters, etc, can be used) will pass the filter

Import saved filters from other applications
You can also select to open filters that you have saved in the Protocol Analyser or Call Trace applications and re-use them in the Statistics Alarm application, which also means that all the parameters available for filtering in Protocol Analyser and Call Trace, are also available for filtering in Statistics Alarm.

Save filters
All the filter settings can also be saved and used at a later time, or shared with colleagues.