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Group convergence supports grouping and convergence of alarms for specified packet labels, deduplication and convergence of the same repeated alarms for the time period. When the threshold rule triggers the alarm or external alarm reporting, it will enter the packet convergence to alarm grouping to deduplicate the alarm to avoid a large number of alarm messages causing alarm storms.
Tag source: monitoring, threshold rules, tags carried by external alarms
When a new (unable to join an existing group) alarm is generated, the group convergence will wait according to the
wait time, during which time, the same alarm or the alarm that meets the grouping conditions will be grouped. The alarm after the grouping is sent to the alarm suppression module for subsequent processing until the time interval between the current time and the first alarm generation in the packet exceeds thewait time.
Note: Only grouped alarms can be suppressed using suppression rules.