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Section 2
Events and Event Logging
Messages originate from the switch or from the Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007
application in response to events that occur in the fabric.
2.1
Understanding Severity Levels
Events are classified by the following severity levels:
Fault – The fault level describes events that may require assistance from
your authorized maintenance provider. Each fault event has a corresponding
alarm message.
Alarm – The alarm level describes events that are disruptive to the
administration or operation of a fabric and require administrator intervention.
Alarms are always logged and always displayed on the screen. Alarm
thresholds can be defined for certain port errors to customize when to
generate an alarm.
Critical – The critical level describes events that are generally disruptive to
the administration or operation of the fabric, but require no action.
Warning – The warning level describes events that are generally not
disruptive to the administration or operation of the fabric, but are more
important than the informative level events.
Informative – The informative level describes routine events associated with
a normal fabric.
2.2
Displaying Events using the Event Browser
The Event Browser displays a list of events generated by the switches in the fabric
and the Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 application. Events that are generated by
the Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 application are not saved on the switch, but can
be saved to a file during the Enterprise Fabric Suite 2007 session.
Entries in the Event Browser are formatted by severity, time stamp, source, type,
and description. The maximum number of entries allowed in the Event Browser is
10,000. The maximum number of entries allowed on a switch is 1200. Once the
maximum is reached, the event list wraps and the oldest events are discarded and
replaced with the new events. Event entries from the switch, use the switch time
stamp, while event entries generated by the application have a workstation time
stamp. You can filter, sort, and export the contents of the Event Browser to a file.
