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Chapter 7 Configuring the Switch Alarms
Understanding IE 3010 Switch Alarms
Alarm profiles provide a mechanism for you to enable or disabl e alarm conditions for a port and
associate the alarm conditions with one or both alarm relays. You can also use alarm profiles to set alarm
conditions to send alarm traps to an SNMP server and system messages to a syslog server. The alarm
profile defaultPort is applied to all interfaces in the factory configuration (by default).
Note You can associate multiple alarms to one relay or one alarm to both relays.
Table 7-2 lists the port status monitoring alarms and their descriptions and functions. Each fault
condition is assigned a severity level based on the Cisco IOS System Error Message Severity Level.
Triggering Alarm Options
The switch supports these methods for triggering alarms:
• Configurable Relay
The switch is equipped with one independent alarm relay t hat can be triggered by alarms for global
and port status conditions. You can configure the relay to send a fault signal to an external alarm
device, such as a bell, light, or other signaling device. You can associate any alarm condition with
the alarm relay. Each fault condition is assigned a severity level based on the Cisco IOS System
Error Message Severity Level.
See the “Configuring IE 3010 Switch Alarms” section on page 7-6 for more inf ormation on
configuring the relay.
Tab l e 7-2 Port Status Monitoring Alarms
Alarm Description
Link Fault alarm The switch generates a link fault alarm when problems with a port physical layer cause
unreliable data transmission. A typical link fault condition is loss of signal or clock. The link
fault alarm is cleared automatically when the link fault condition is cleared. The severity for
this alarm is error condition, level 3.
Port not Forwarding alarm The switch generates a port not-forwarding alarm when a port is not forwarding packets. This
alarm is cleared automatically when the port begins to forward packets. The severity for this
alarm is warning, level 4.
Port not Operating alarm The switch generates a port not-operating alarm when a port fails during the startup self-test.
When triggered, the port not-operating alarm is only cleared when t he switch is restarted and
the port is operational. The severity for this alarm is error condition, level 3.
FCS Bit Error Rate alarm The switch generates an FCS bit error-rate alarm when the actual FCS bit error-rate is close to
the configured rate. You can set the FCS bit error-rate by using the interface configuration CLI
for each of the ports. See the “Configuring the FCS Bit Error Rate Alarm” section on
page 7-10 for more information. The severity for this alarm is error condition, level 3.