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MAX Administration Guide
Using Traps to Monitor Performance
Alarm/Error and Security events
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Alarm/Error and Security events
The MAX unit generates traps that relate to alarm (error) and security events. Events are not
logged on a per-VRouter basis. If you use VRouters, the servers and clients you specify in the
SNMP Options and SNMP Traps profiles must be accessible to the main VRouter.
Alarm/Error events
Alarm events (also called error events) use trap types defined in RFC 1215 and 1315, as well
as an Ascend enterprise trap type. The MAX provides the following trap types:
OSPF VirtIf ConfigError
ospfTraps 5
OSPF VirtIf AuthFailure
ospfTraps 7
OSPF VirtIf StateChange
ospfTraps 11
OSPF VirtIf RxBadPacket
ospfTraps 9
OSPF VirtIf TxRetransmit
ospfTraps 11
OSPF VirtNbr StateChnge
ospfTraps 3
OSPF OriginateLsa
ospfTraps 12
OSPF MaxAgeLsa
ospfTraps 13
OSPF LsdbOverflow
ospfTraps 14
OSPF LsdbApprchngOvrflw
ospfTraps 15
OSPF trap (continued)
SNMP Trap ID in RFC 1850
Alarm event
Signifies that the MAX sending the trap
coldStart (RFC-1215
trap-type 0)
Is reinitializing itself and that the configuration of the SNMP manager
or the unit might be altered.
warmStart (RFC-
1215 trap-type 1)
Is reinitializing itself but neither the configuration of the SNMP man-
ager nor that of the unit will be altered.
linkDown (RFC-1215
trap-type 2)
Recognizes a failure in one of the communication links represented in
the SNMP manager’s configuration.
linkUp (RFC-1215
trap-type 3)
Recognizes that one of the communication links represented in the
SNMP manager's configuration has come up.
frDLCIStatusChange
(RFC-1315 trap-type
1)
Recognizes that one of the virtual circuits (to which a DLCI number
has been assigned) has changed state. That is, the link has been either
created or invalidated, or has toggled between the active and inactive
states.
eventTableOverwrite
(ascend trap-type 16)
Detects that a new event has overwritten an unread event. This trap is
sent only for systems that support Ascend's accounting MIB. Once
sent, additional overwrites will not cause another trap to be sent until
at least one table’s worth of new events has occurred.