5-28 CHAPTER 5: ADVANCED MANAGEMENT

About Alarm Actions

You can define up to 700 alarms for the Switch. The

actions that you can define for each alarm are

shown in Tab le 5- 3.

Tabl e 5-3 Alarm Actions
Action High Thresh old Low Threshold
No action.
Notify only. Send Trap.
Notify and
blip port. Send Trap. Block broadcast
and multicast traffic on
the port for 5 seconds.
Notify and
disable port. Send Trap. Turn port off.
Notify and
enable port. Send Trap. Turn port
on.
Blip port. Block broadcast and multi-
cast traffic on the port for
5 seconds.
Disable port. Turn port off.
Enable port. Turn port on.
Notify and
move resilient
port.
Send Trap. If port is the
main port of a resilient link
pair then move to standby.
Notify and
blip device. Send Trap. Block broadcast
and multicast traffic on all
ports for 5 seconds.
Notify and
disable device. Send trap. Turn all ports
on device off.
Notify and
enable device. Send Trap. Turn ports
back to original state.
Blip device. Block broadcast and multi-
cast traffic on all ports for
5 seconds.
Disable device. Turn all ports on device off.
Re-enable
device. Turn ports back to
original state.