ZyXEL Communications IES-612-51A User Manual

 Chapter 40 Alarm

IES-612-51A User’s Guide

Use this screen to specify the severity level of an alarm(s) and where the system is to send the 
alarm(s).

To open this screen, click Alarm, Alarm Status. Then, click an alarm’s index number.

Figure 131   Alarm Event Setup Edit

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

SNMP

This field displays “V” if the system is to send this alarm to an SNMP server. It 
displays “-“ if the system does not send this alarm to an SNMP server.

Syslog

This field displays “V” if the system is to send this alarm to a syslog server. It 
displays “-“ if the system does not send this alarm to a syslog server.

Severity

This field displays the alarm severity level (critical, major, minor or info).

Clearable

This displays “V” if the alarm clear command removes the alarm from the 
system. It displays “-“if the alarm clear command does not remove the alarm 
from the system.

Table 85   Alarm Event Setup (continued)

Table 86   Alarm Event Setup Edit

Alarm

This field displays the alarm category to which the alarm belongs.
eqpt represents equipment alarms.
dsl represents Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) alarms.
enet represents Ethernet alarms.
sys represents system alarms.

Condition Code

This field displays the condition code number for the specific alarm message.

Condition

This field displays a text description for the condition under which the alarm 
applies.

Facility

The log facility (local1~local7) has the device log the syslog messages to a 
particular file in the syslog server. Select a log facility (local1~local7) from the 
drop-down list box if this entry is for sending alarms to a syslog server. See your 
syslog program’s documentation for details.

SNMP

Select this check box to have the system send this alarm to an SNMP server. 

Syslog

Select this check box to have the system send this alarm to a syslog server. 

Severity

Select an alarm severity level (critical, major, minor or info) for this alarm. 
Critical alarms are the most severe, major alarms are the second most severe, 
minor alarms are the third most severe and info alarms are the least severe.

Clearable

Select this check box to allow administrators to use the management interface 
to remove an alarm report generated by this alarm event entry. 
Select this check box to keep an alarm report generated by this alarm event in 
the system until the conditions that caused the alarm report are no longer 
present.