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VPN 3000 Concentrator Series User Guide
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Events
An event is any significant occurrence within or affecting the VPN 3000 Concentrator such as an alarm,
trap, error condition, network problem, task completion, th reshold breach, or status change. The VPN
Concentrator records events in an event log, which is stored in nonvolatile memory. You can also specify
that certain events trigger a console message, a UNIX syslog record, an email message, or an SNMP
management system trap.
Event attributes include class and severity level.

Event class

Event class denotes the source of the event and refers to a specific hardware or software subsystem
within the VPN Concentrator. Table 10-1 describes the event classes.
Table 10-1: VPN Concentrator event classes
Class name Class description (event source)
(*Cisco-specific event class)
AUTH Authentication*
AUTHDBG Authentication debugging*
AUTHDECODE Authentication protocol decoding*
BKPLN WAN backplane driver*
CAPI Cryptography subsystem*
CERT Digital certificates subsystem
CONFIG Configuration subsystem*
DHCP DHCP subsystem
DHCPDBG DHCP debugging*
DHCPDECODE DHCP decoding*
DM Data Movement subsystem*
DNS DNS subsystem