Alarm Reporting Method
As stated earlier, Access-T can be configured to dial-out alarms in three ways:
•
Alert Message:
In Terminal Interface Mode, Access-T sends a one-
line
ALERT
banner (identifying the Access-T) to an ASCII terminal. The
operator must then request an alarm history to identify the particular
alarm.
•
Unsolicited Alarm Reports
: Access-T can be configured to send
unsolicited alarm reports to a network management system (NMS)
in a modified TABS format. (Information on this report is included
in the Access-T TABS Interface Manual, ACST-0731-00x.)
•
SNMP Traps:
Access-T sends a trap message (either SLIP or PPP,
depending on which interface is currently enabled) to an SNMP-
based manager. The SNMP manager must have the proper MIBs
compiled to interpret the message to be logged.
The format of the ALERT banner and other information about reporting to an
ASCII terminal, NMS, or SNMP-based manager are given under Principles of
Alarm Reporting
in Chapter 7.
Note:
In order for alarm dialout to occur, you must configure
your modem as described under Modem Dialout Configura-
tion
later in this chapter.
To select the alarm reporting method that will be used for alarm dialout, or to
disable alarm dialout by selecting
NONE
, perform the following steps:
1.
Select
ALARMS
from the Main Menu Line.
2.
Select
REPORT METHOD
.
3.
Select the type of alarm reporting method:
ALERT MESSAGE
,
SNMP
TRAPS
,
UNSOLICITED
, or
NONE
and press the
Enter
key.
Note:
The selected alarm reporting method applies
only to alarm dialout. Regardless of which method is
enabled, including
NONE
, enabled alarms will still be
accumulated and stored and ALERT will appear in the
Title Bar of the Menu Window.
Chapter 6
ACST-0351-005
Configuration Procedures
June 1996
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