Cabletron Systems EMM-E6 manual Alarm Configuration, Chapter

Chapter 3

Alarm Configuration

Using Alarm Configuration; setting repeater alarm configuration; setting port and module alarm configuration

Alarms work in conjunction with your network management system to let you know when defined thresholds have been reached. You define the conditions that will trigger an alarm using the Alarm Configuration application. The EMM-E6 monitors activity and reports to your network management station, in the form of a trap, when a defined threshold is reached. You can set alarms at three levels:

•Repeater alarms monitor the combined activity of all ports within a single hub network.

•Module alarms monitor the combined activity of all ports within a single module.

•Port alarms monitor the activity of a single port.

The effect of an alarm depends on the parameters you have set via your management station.

NOTE

SPMA does not accept trap messages; that task is left to your network management system. (See the appropriate network management system documentation for details about viewing trap messages.) When this application is used in stand-alone mode, traps will either be ignored when they return to the workstation from which you are running SPMA for the EMM-E6, or they will turn up at another management workstation which has been configured to accept traps. Note also that, regardless of the configuration performed using this application, NO traps will be sent by the device unless its trap table has been properly configured; see the EMM-E6 hardware manual and/or the Trap Table chapter in the SPMA Tools Guide for more information.

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