I have a question regarding the definition of the fields used when offloading alarms to an external database.
We discovered that there are 2 different date fields called “Toa” and “creationTime”. Could you please elaborate what exactly the difference of these 2 dates is.
Many thanks,
Christian
Hi Christian,
‘Toa’ (time of arrival) is the ‘Time’ column you see in the alarm console (part of the default columns). This is basically when the alarm effectively happened or was detected.
‘creationTime’ is the ‘Creation time’ column in the alarm console, but that column is hidden by default, because less relevant. In most cases, this will contain the same time as Toa, but it is possible that DataMiner retrieves historical data. E.g. Now we retrieve the data of what happened the last 2 hours on a system. Then it is possible that DataMiner is creating an alarm now with the Toa set to an hour ago.
In other words, creation time is when the alarm was created in DataMiner, Toa is when the alarm effectively happened. Only in specific environments those times will be different.
Let us know if you need more details.
Bert