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As the name suggests, these tables are indeed used by the analytics features. The large partition size for analytics_wavestream is likely caused by an element with a large table, as it stores a model for...

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Yes, this is possible by using the Automatic Incident Tracking feature. This feature will try to group alarms together that belong to the same incident, taking into account certain information on the alarm....

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Alarm groups form alarm trees just like regular alarms. Upon creation the alarm group has an alarm ID equal to the root alarm ID. Every update to the alarm group then gets a new alarm ID, but keeps the...

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The way conditions work might be a bit confusing. When putting a condition on a line in the alarm template, it will be excluded if that condition as a whole evaluates to true. Your condition consists of...

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For variance changes, trend changes and flatlines, you can only specify whether you want alarms or not by selecting the checkbox in front. When selecting this option, DataMiner will decide whether the...

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In addition to Simon's answer, you can use Automatic Incident Tracking to automatically group alarms in the alarm console based on what DataMiner detects as the most relevant reason these alarms are there....

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I do not think a join with a like clause is possible in GQI. However, depending on the exact format of the column in A, you might be able to do a regex column manipulation on 'b.column' to extract the...

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We are aware that these errors seem to pop-up in certain circumstances. We are still investigating why and when they exactly occur, but as far as we know they do not seriously impact SLAnalytics or any...

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On DataMiner Docs, I read the following If you have alarms grouped by view, and an alarm event occurs on an element that is in multiple views, the alarm is added for each of these views. However, only...

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You might want to have a look at Automatic Incident Tracking. See here, for a nice introduction video. Unlike the correlation engine, this feature tries to automatically group your alarms according...

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Unfortunately, we currently don't have multivariate trend prediction in DataMiner. It also seems to me that trend prediction isn't the best approach to achieve what you want to achieve, as it would be...

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As mentioned in the comments above, these alarms are indeed created by the feature Automatic Incident Tracking, which is enabled by default in version 10.2.0. You can find a quick demonstration at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6ITgtTFz1E....

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I see two options. The easiest way is to use the SLNet message 'GenetateAlarmMessage'. This message can be used to create Notice or Error alarms with a custom value, and they will be shown in the active...

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This can be done using the correlation module. You can create a correlation rule and set a rule condition 'alarm type not equal to Acknowledged' and set the rule to trigger only if the condition is met...

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DataMiner ModelHost is responsible for downloading and updating the Relation Learning model calculated in the cloud. This model contains information about which parameters in your DataMiner system are...

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About the alarm template you show: keep in mind that a condition will exclude a line in the alarm template if that condition evaluates to true. Hence, in your example the line will be included, unless...

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As Ben mentioned above, it is indeed advisable to avoid situations like this all together as these limits are typically put in place for a reason. However, if you need to, you can configure some of them....

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It might not be possible to achieve what you want directly with correlation rules, but you can trigger an automation script for every alarm update using correlation rules, and then check every time whether...

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I am not aware of a method to do this using a single row in a table. However, if you store the data in multiple rows as you are doing now, you can create a dashboard showing a graph of the relevant metrics...

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Not sure how you configured how you configured the alerting by email exactly, but I'm assuming you set an alert for every alarm matching a certain filter (as described here). As an alternative, you can...

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Both for absolute and relative thresholds, the high and low thresholds can be different. For instance, if I set the low and high warning thresholds as below, then a warning will be given if the parameter...

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I assume your parameter is a table parameter and the 'Service Name' is the table index (i.e. the row identifier)? In that case, you can specify the index in the 'Parameter description (by protocol)' filter,...

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I am not completely sure that I understand the problem correctly, but it seems to me you can use the 'And Not (' option in the alarm filter to exclude alarms that are both on the faulty element and service,...

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Not sure I understand the question correctly, but it seems to me that you can collect all your alarms in a correlation rule by applying the necessary filters under 'Alarm Filter' and then select 'Send...

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It seems your GetAlarmIds method is close to what you want. The Buckets field in the GetCorrelationStatusResponse message represents alarms grouped according to what you specified under 'Alarm Grouping'...

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I wasn't able to recreate the full graph (yet), but you can create part of it using the existing 'Get alarms' data source with the following query. This query first fetches all alarms since yesterday...

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Unfortunately, I do not think you can currently easily link an alarm in the alarm console to an incident in the Incident Manager app beyond manually filling in the alarm ID when creating an incident in...

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In addition to the previous two answers, you also need to enable the focus column in the alarm console. Whether the alarm has focus is then shown in this column. The icon being present, means the...

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