56CHAPTER 7: STATUS MONITORING AND STATISTICS

Alarm Events You can define up to 200 alarms for the Switch. The events that you can define for each alarm and their resulting actions are listed in Table 5.

Table 5 Alarm Events

Event

Action

 

 

No action

 

Notify only

Send Trap.

Notify and filter port

Send Trap. Block broadcast and multicast

 

traffic on the port. Recovers with the unfilter

 

port event.

Notify and disable port

Send Trap. Turn port off.

Notify and enable port

Send Trap. Turn port on.

Disable port

Turn port off.

Enable port

Turn port on.

Notify and unfilter port

Send Trap. Stop blocking broadcast and

 

multicast traffic on the port.

System started

 

Software Upgrade report

 

 

 

The Default Alarm A new or initialized Switch has the following alarm(s) defined for each Settings port:

Percentage of errors over one minute

The default values and actions for each of these alarms are given in

Table 6.

Table 6 Values for the default alarm(s)

 

 

Low Threshold

 

Statistic

High Threshold

Recovery

Period

 

 

 

 

Broadcast

Value: 20%

Value: 10%

30 secs

bandwidth used

Action: Notify and filter

Action: Notify and unfilter

 

 

 

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