Glossary

This glossary defines terms that are specific to the OpenNMS ALEC plugin. For more general terminology related to the OpenNMS project, see the core documentation.

A

alarm: A fault or problem that is triggered by one or more events.
ALEC: Architecture for Learning Enabled Correlation.

C

cluster: A group of correlated alarms.

I

inventory object (IO): An abstraction of monitored nodes and their components. Alarms can be related to a minimum of zero inventory objects, and a maximum of one.

S

situation: A representation of a synthetic "parent" alarm which is triggered by one or more "child" alarms. Situations should be created only if there are two or more alarms in an alarm causality tree; otherwise, the event could be represented by a single alarm.