Reference Manual for the ProSafe Network Management System NMS100
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Polling and Emailing
September 2004 202-10058-01
Other Event Types
The pollDeviceDown event is an example used in this section. The mechanism is the same for
other types of events, including those generated for Status Variable and Manual Threshold Alarms.
The following table shows common events and when they occur.
Table 4-2.
ProSafe NMS Events
Event Subtree
Trap Name
Description
Snmpc-Status-Polling
pollDeviceDown
Device has not responded for three consecutive
poll sequences.
pollNoResponse
Device failed to respond to one poll sequence.
pollRequestRejected
Device rejected the sysObjectId.0 or the user-set
status polling variable.
pollResponse
Device responded to a poll sequence.
pollServiceDown
Could not connect to the TCP port after three
consecutive attempts.
pollServiceNoResponse
Could not connect to the TCP port after one
attempt.
pollServiceResponding
Connection to TCP port OK.
pollStatusTestFail
Status variable test failed.
pollStatusTestPass
Status variable test passed.
Snmpc-System-Info
pollAgentConnect
SNMPc polling agent connection to server
established.
pollAgentDisconnect
SNMPc polling agent connection to server lost.
Snmpc-Threshold-Alarm
alarmAutoThresholdExpand
Trend auto-baseline moved higher.
alarmAutoThresholdReduce
Trend auto-baseline moved lower.
alarmAutoThresholdSet
Trend auto-baseline initially set.
alarmAutoThresholdTrigger
Trend auto-baseline exceeded.
alarmManualThresholdTrigger Trend manual alarm passed threshold.
alarmManualThresholdReset
After being triggered, a trend manual alarm no
longer passes the threshold test.
snmp-Traps
authenticationFailure
Trap generated by a device on an illegal access
(bad community name).
coldStart
Trap generated by a device after it restarts.
linkDown
Trap generated by a device when a link fails.
linkUp
Trap generated by a device when a link that was
down recovers.
