Chapter 4 Advanced Correlation Scenarios

IP Interface Failure Scenarios

 

Table 4-1

IP Interface Status Down Alarm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Name

Description

 

Ticketable

Correlation allowed

Correlated to

Severity

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interface

Sent when an IP interface

Yes

Yes

Link Down/Device

Major

status

changes oper status to “down”

 

 

unreachable/Configuration

 

down/up

 

 

 

 

changed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The alarm’s description includes the full name of the IP interface, for example Serial0.2 (including the identifier for the subinterface if it is a subinterface) and the source of the alarm source points to the IP interface (and not to Layer1).

All syslogs and traps indicating changes in subinterfaces (above which an IP is configured) correlate to the “ip interface status down” alarm (if this alarm was supposed to be issued). The source of these events is the IP interface. Syslogs and traps that indicate problems in Layer1 (that do not have a subinterface qualifier in their description) are sourced to Layer1.

Note In case a syslog or trap is received from a subinterface that does not have an IP configured above it, the source of the created alarm is the underlying Layer 1.

For example:

•Line-down trap (for subinterface).

•Line-down syslogs (for subinterface). For events that occur on subinterfaces:

•When sending the information northbound, the system uses the full subinterface name in the interface name in the source field, as described in the ifDesc/ifName OID (for example Serial0/0.1 and not Serial0/0 DLCI 50).

•The source of the alarm is the IP interface configured above the subinterface.

•If there is no IP configured, the source is the underlying Layer 1.

In case the main interface goes down, all related subinterfaces’ traps and syslogs are correlated as child tickets to the main interface parent ticket.

The following technologies are supported:

•Frame Relay/HSSI

•ATM

•Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet

•POS

•CHOC

Correlation of Syslogs and Traps

When receiving a trap or syslog for the subinterface level, immediate polling of the status of the relevant IP interface occurs and a polled parent event (for example, ip interface status down) is created. The trap or syslog is correlated to this alarm.

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3.6 specifications

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