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4 • Alarms
•
Modify Parameters—links to the Alarm System Configurations window (see
figure 15
) for configuring the
alarm response system with the IP addresses of one or more administrators who should be notified in case of
an alarm (refer to section
“Alarm System Configurations window”
)
•
Modify Severity—links to the Alarm Severity Configuration window (see
figure 16
on page 26) where you can
configure the severity (importance) of each alarm. For each alarm, you can defined the value of Alarm Sever-
ity as critical, major, minor, informational, or ignore. Defining an alarm’s severity as ignore disables that alarm.
(refer to section
“Alarm Severity Configuration”
on page 26)
Alarm System Configurations window
When an alarm condition occurs, by default the 6511RC does the following to notify administrators of the alarm:
•
Activates the front and rear panel Alarm LEDs
•
Activates the alarm indications on the 6511RC web management windows (as color-coded highlighting on
the Home window and as a color-coded symbol on the System Status window).
If it has been configured to do so, the 6511RC can also send Syslog and SNMP trap messages to an external alarm
management host. This section describes how to configure the Syslog and/or SNMP trap alarm response outputs.
Click on Modify Parameters (see
figure 11
on page 22) to open the Alarm System Configurations window (see
figure 15
). Choose the alarm response output that you wish to configure. After defining the value for a desired
alarm response output parameter, click the Submit Query button to the right of the parameter you just modified.
Note
You must click Submit Query for each parameter you modify in order to save
your changes. Each submit query button on this page only affects the single
parameter on the same line. Clicking a Submit Query button will not save
changes made to parameter values on other lines.
The following sections describe the Alarm Response Output parameters.
Alarm Syslog Priority (syslogAlarmPriority)
Syslog is a protocol that enables the 6511RC to send event notification messages across IP networks to event mes-
sage collectors (also known as Syslog Servers or Syslog Daemons). The Alarm Syslog Priority parameter defines what
priority level an event must be at before the 6511RC sends a message to the Syslog daemon. The levels are:
•
priorityDisable(1000)
•
prioritySystem(80)
•
priorityService(60)
•
priorityOddity(40)
•
priorityInfo(20)
•
priorityDebug(10)
•
priorityVerbose(5)
Note
Unless instructed to do otherwise by Patton Technical Support, you should
leave the Alarm Syslog priority set for prioritySystem(80) (which will only
generate a Syslog message for incidents greater than the System priority level)
or priorityDisable(1000) (which deactivates Syslog message sending).
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