Enterasys SmartSwitch 6000, User Manual

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Advanced Alarm Configuration 4-23
Alarm Configuration
3. Click in the Description text box to enter any text description you want to
identify the event. This description will appear in the Events Watch portion of
the main Advanced Alarm/Event window, and help you distinguish among the
events you have configured.
4. Any value you enter in the Community field will be included in any trap
messages issued by your SmartSwitch 6000 or Matrix E7 series module when
this event is triggered; this value is also used to direct traps related to this
event to the appropriate management workstation(s):
a. If you enter a value in this field, traps related to this event will only be
sent to the network management stations in the device’s trap table
which
have been assigned the same community name (and for which traps
have been enabled). Any IP addresses in the device’s trap table which
have
not been assigned the same community string, or which have been
assigned no community string, will not receive traps related to the
alarm(s) you are configuring.
b. If you leave this field blank, traps related to this event will be sent to any
network management stations which have been added to the device’s
trap table, and for which traps have been enabled — regardless of
whether or not those IP addresses have been assigned a community
name in the trap table.
5. You can use the Owner text box for administrative or informational purposes;
although the text entered here will not appear on any other screens, you
may want to use the network manager’s name or phone number, or the
IP or MAC address of the management workstation, to identify the owner
of the event. Since any workstation can access and change the events you
are setting in your RMON device, some owner identification can prevent
events from being altered or deleted accidentally. The default value provided
is monitor.
6. Use the options in the Event Type field to define how this event will respond
when an associated threshold is crossed:
a. Select the Log option to create a silent log of event occurrences and the
alarms that triggered them. Each event’s log can be viewed by clicking on
the Event Log button at the bottom of the Alarm/Event window. (See
Viewing an Advanced Alarm Event Log , on page 4-27 , for details.)
b. Select Trap to instruct the device to send a pair of SNMP traps (one
WARNING, one NORMAL) to the management station each time the
event is triggered.
TIP
For more information about configuring your SmartSwitch 6000 or Matrix E7 series
module’s trap table, consult your Local Management documentation or the Remote
Administration Tools Guide. (Remember, no traps will be sent by your SmartSwitch
6000 or Matrix E7 series module at all unless its trap table has been properly
configured!)