Enterasys Networks 700 User Manual

Basic Alarm Configuration

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Alarm Configuration

3.

In the Interval field, enter the amount of time, in seconds, over which the 
selected variable will be sampled. At the end of the interval, the sample value 
will be compared to both the rising and falling thresholds. You can assign any 
interval from 1 to 65,535. 

4.

In the Alarm field, click to select one or both of the following options:

a.

Select Log if you wish to create a silent log of alarm occurrences.

b.

Select Send Trap if you want your device to issue a trap in response to 
each alarm occurrence.

5.

Any value you enter in the Community field will be included in any trap 
messages issued by your MultiSwitch 700 module in response to the alarm(s) 
you are configuring. This value is also used to direct traps related to this alarm 
to the appropriate management workstation(s):

a.

If you enter a value in this field, traps related to the associated alarms 
will only be sent to the network management stations in the device’s trap 
table 

which have been assigned the same community name (and for 

which traps have been enabled). Any IP addresses in the device’s trap 
table which have 

not been assigned the same community string, or which 

have been assigned no community string, will not receive traps related to 
the alarm(s) you are configuring.

b.

If you leave this field blank, traps related to the associated alarms will 
be sent to any network management stations which have been added to 
the device’s trap table, and for which traps have been enabled — 
regardless of whether or not those IP addresses have been assigned a 
community name in the trap table.

6.

Click in the Rising Threshold field, and enter the high threshold value for this 
alarm. Remember, compared values are always relative, or delta values (the 
difference between the value counted at the end of the current interval and 
the value counted at the end of the previous interval); be sure to set your 
thresholds accordingly.

When configuring a Kilobits alarm, NetSight Element Manager converts 
octets into kilobits (units of 125 bytes, or octets) for you;
for example, to set a rising threshold of 1250 octets, enter a threshold value 
of 10.

In order for the trap selection to work properly, your MultiSwitch 700 module must be 
configured to send traps to your network management station. This is accomplished via 
Local Management or the Remote Administration Tools application. Consult your device 
hardware manual or the Remote Administration Tools User’s Guide for details.