Current approaches to Information-Centric Networking (ICN) facilitate the publication and retrieval of content in a network through a variety of discovery, caching and forwarding approaches, thus defining an equivalent of the data plane in the current Internet infrastructure. However, in contrast to the current Internet, ICN lacks a definition of the control plane for the management of the operation of network topologies.,,,,In this paper, we focus on fault management of ICNs as part of the control plane. This research examines established techniques from IP networks and tailors them towards the particular requirements of the ICN model, including the reception of fault alarms and alerts from network elements (NE), such as routers.