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Interpret Informational Incidents

In addition to tracking Root Cause Incidents, NNMi's Causal Engine tracks changes in your network and generates incidents to inform you of changes to your network devices that might be of interest. These incidents are informational and have a Correlation Nature of  Info. To view these incidents, create a filter for the All Incidents view, using the Correlation Nature column, and select the value  Info from the enumerated list of values . See Filter a Table Views for more information about using filters in table views.

Examples of incidents generated to inform you of network changes include the following: 

  • Card Removed
  • Card Inserted

Card Removed

On the Source Object (which is a node) form, NNMi updates information on the following tab:

Source Node Updates
Tab Description
Incident

Adds the Card Removed incident.

The Correlated Children tab includes any associated traps.

NNMi does not automatically close Card Removed incidents.

See Card Form for more information about card States and Status.

Card Inserted

Source Node Updates
Tab Description
Incident

Adds the Card Inserted incident.

The Correlated Children tab includes any associated traps.

NNMi does not automatically close Card Inserted incidents.

Node Deleted

A Node Deleted incident indicates a Node was deleted from the NNMi topology.

A Node Deleted Incident is generated with the Severity set to Normal.

NNMi does not automatically close Node Deleted incidents.