Alarm surveillance

Definition
Alarm surveillance is

"[t]he set of functions that enable: (1) the monitoring of the communications network to detect faults and fault-related events or conditions; (2) the logging of this information for future use in fault detection and other network management activities; and (3) the analysis and control of alarms, notifications, and other information about faults to ensure that the resources of network management are directed toward faults that affect the operation of the communications network. Analysis of alarms consists of alarm filtering, alarm correlation, and fault prediction."