diff --git a/05-osm-usage.md b/05-osm-usage.md index 96ba48233c69a2e4fbb342101d909fa388f5ef51..3a01688c13f41e1a30361fb06bcbe154d9b5f85a 100644 --- a/05-osm-usage.md +++ b/05-osm-usage.md @@ -863,6 +863,19 @@ vdu: Regarding how to configure alarms through VNFDs for the auto-scaling use case, follow the [auto-scaling documentation](#autoscaling) +##### Alarm Notification Enhancement + +Whenever a threshold is crossed, POL sends 'alarm' to alarm server and when the metric is lower than the threshold, POL sends 'ok' to alarm server for every evaluation cycle. Republishing the alarm/ok in spite of no status change floods with notification messages. + +To overcome this issue, alarm notification enhancement will suppress sending repeated alarm/ok to alarm management server by comparing with the last status. + +In order to enable/disable the alarm notification enhancement in POL, change `pol.yaml` to set `enhanced_alarms` to `True`/`False`. + +```yaml + alert: + enhanced_alarms: True|False +``` + #### Experimental functionality An optional 'OSM ELK' stack is available to allow for events visualization, consisting of the following tools: