Tech Support: How to optimize your T/MonXM windows layout to provide at-a-glance network status

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In T/MonXM, alarms are grouped into categories called "Windows." Alarm windows are a flexible interface element that can be used to organize your alarm information into highly usable, easily understood alarm displays. Here are some tips on optimizing your T/MonXM window layout.

DPS Telecom recommends that you use the first page of your Alarm Summary Screen (Windows 1-30) to create a single at-a-glance network status screen. This screen will summarize the entire network, so that if anything goes wrong anywhere in your network, you'll see it here first.

To create this one-stop network summary screen, use Windows 1-30 only for severity windows, equipment windows, and alarm type windows. Don't start listing your site windows until Window 31, on the second page of the Alarm Summary screen.

Having a single network summary screen will do a lot to minimize the greatest danger facing telecom networks - human error. If your entire network is summarized in one screen, there is very little chance that an operator will miss an alarm.

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