topic Re: DFM Test Alarm being generated automatically in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions

DFM Test Alarm being generated automatically

brsiemens — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:43:40 GMT

DFM community,

Does anyone know how to fix this? I have been receiving, every 45 minutes or so, this e-mail from DFM:

An Information event at 23 Jan 12:28 E. South America Daylight Time on Mgmt Station xxxhostnamexxx:

Alarm Test.

Testing alarm 4

I couldn't find anything related to this on the Operations Manager, has anyone come across it?

Best regards,

Marcelo

Re: DFM Test Alarm being generated automatically

JGPSHNTAP — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:43:22 GMT

A while ago i had a similiar issue with a "ghost" alarm that wasn't appearing in the console

dfm alarm list from the cli and see what alarm 4 is

If it's not valid, delete it

Re: DFM Test Alarm being generated automatically

brsiemens — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:48:27 GMT

Thanks for your reply.

This is what I found:

Alarm 4

Group Filers

Event Severity All

Event Name volume-almost-full

Time From 00:00

Time To 23:59

Repeat Notify Yes

Repeat Interval 45

Email Addresses ADMIN@HOST

SNMP Trap Recipients 1.1.1.1

Doesn't make much sense, right?

Re: DFM Test Alarm being generated automatically

JGPSHNTAP — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 15:04:14 GMT

Is that a valid alarm? Are you using that alarm? If not, I would say delete it. if so, delete it and recreate it. I'm not sure why you are seeing test alarm. Unless you are actively getting volume fulls

Re: DFM Test Alarm being generated automatically

brsiemens — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 18:47:25 GMT

Yes, it was a valid alarm.

As suggested, I have deleted and recreated it, and now I don't receive any alarm!

I will give it an hour or so to see if it starts working.

Re: DFM Test Alarm being generated automatically

agireesh — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 05:41:12 GMT

It is not good practice to delete the alarm, you are getting repeated alarm because you have created repeated alarm on volume-almost-full

event. The use case of setting repeated alarm is that until user doesn't resolve the issue he will keep get repeated alarm.

Here, if you don't want repeated alarm then you can acknowledge and the resolve the event if issue has fixed.

Re: DFM Test Alarm being generated automatically

AMANSINGH13 — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 10:13:54 GMT

You have to ack it and then delete, it wont happen again.