Blade ICE G8124-E manual Rmon Group 3-Alarms, Alarm MIB objects, Configuring Rmon Alarms

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BLADEOS 6.5.2 Application Guide

RMON Group 3—Alarms

The RMON Alarm Group allows you to define a set of thresholds used to determine network performance. When a configured threshold is crossed, an alarm is generated. For example, you can configure the switch to issue an alarm if more than 1,000 CRC errors occur during a 10-minute time interval.

Each Alarm index consists of a variable to monitor, a sampling time interval, and parameters for rising and falling thresholds. The Alarm Group can be used to track rising or falling values for a MIB object. The object must be a counter, gauge, integer, or time interval.

Use one of the following commands to correlate an Alarm index to an Event index:

RS G8124(config)# rmon alarm <alarm number> rising-crossing-index<event number>

RS G8124(config)# rmon alarm <alarm number> falling-crossing-index<event number>

When the alarm threshold is reached, the corresponding event is triggered.

Alarm MIB objects

The most common data types used for alarm monitoring are ifStats: errors, drops, bad CRCs, and so on. These MIB Object Identifiers (OIDs) correlate to the ones tracked by the History Group. An example statistic follows:

1.3.6.1.2.1.5.1.0 – mgmt.icmp.icmpInMsgs

This value represents the alarm’s MIB OID, as a string. Note that for non-tables, you must supply a

.0 to specify end node.

Configuring RMON Alarms

Configure the RMON Alarm parameters to track ICMP messages.

RS G8124(config)# rmon alarm 1 oid 1.3.6.1.2.1.5.8.0 RS G8124(config)# rmon alarm 1 alarm-type rising

RS G8124(config)# rmon alarm 1 rising-crossing-index 110 RS G8124(config)# rmon alarm 1 interval-time 60

RS G8124(config)# rmon alarm 1 rising-limit 200 RS G8124(config)# rmon alarm 1 sample delta

RS G8124(config)# rmon alarm 1 owner "Alarm for icmpInEchos"

This configuration creates an RMON alarm that checks icmpInEchos on the switch once every minute. If the statistic exceeds 200 within a 60 second interval, an alarm is generated that triggers event index 110.

BMD00220, October 2010

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G8124-E, G8124 specifications

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