TCAP Alarms

Alarm

The alarm (event) notification message is received by the TCAP service user when TCAP is reporting an error.

General explanation of the fields of previous structure:

• The TCAP handle field specifies the handle of the TCAP instance

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• The Category field indicates the category of the alarm. Possible values:

Alarm category	Description
None	No category
Protocol	Protocol related alarms
Interface	Interface related alarms
Internal	Internal software error related alarms
Resources	System resources related alarms

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• The Event field specifies the event that caused the alarm.

Alarm Event	Description
None	No event
Invalid UI event	Invalid upper interface event
Invalid LI event	Invalid lower interface event
Invalid event	Invalid network message
Invalid timer event	Invalid timer expiration event
Invalid MI event	Invalid layer manager event
Bind failure	Bind with service provider failed
Message allocation failed	Message allocation failed
Duplicate invoke ID	Duplicate invoke ID
Mandatory missing	Mandatory element is missing
Unexpected RX message	Received unexpected message
Unknown RX message	Received unknown message
Invalid dialog ID	Invalid dialog ID
Unrecognized invoke ID	Unrecognized invoke ID
Allocation dialog failure	Dialog allocation failed
Hash failure	Hash table operation failed
Max configuration	Reached configuration limit
Invalid component	Invalid component

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• The Cause field specifies the cause of the alarm.

Alarm Cause	Description
Unknown	No cause
Invalid SAP	Invalid SAP
Invalid SP	Invalid service provider (out-of-range)
Invalid SU	Invalid service user (out-of-range)
Protocol not active	Protocol layer is not active
Interface version	Invalid interface version
Unbound	SAP unbound
Dialog allocation failed	Dialog allocation failed
Invoke allocation failed	Invoke allocation failed
User-part association failed	User-part association failed
SP SAP association failure	Interface association failed
Decoding failure	Message decoding problem

Userpart Alarm

An alarm (event) notification message is received by the TCAP service user when a TCAP userpart is reporting an error.

• The TCAP handle field specifies the handle of the TCAP instance.

• The TCAP Userpart handle field specifies the handle of the TCAP Userpart instance.

• The Category field indicates the category of the Userpart alarm. Possible values: see the 'TCAP alarm category' table in TCAP Alarms.

• The Event field specifies the event that cause the Userpart alarm. Possible values: see the 'TCAP alarm event' table in TCAP Alarms.

• The Cause field specifies the cause of the Userpart alarm. Possible values: see the 'TCAP alarm cause' table in TCAP Alarms.