C H A P T E R 9

Events

An event is any significant occurrence within or affecting the VPN 3002 such as an alarm, trap, error condition, network problem, task completion, threshold breach, or status change. The VPN 3002 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, 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 3002. Table 9-1describes the event classes.

Table 9-1 Event Classes

 

 

 

Class Description (Event Source)

 

 

 

Class Name

(*Cisco-specific Event Class)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTH

Authentication*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTHDBG

Authentication debugging*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTHDECODE

Authentication protocol decoding*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTOUPDATE

Autoupdate subsystem*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DNSDBG

DNS debugging*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DNSDECODE

DNS decoding*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EVENT

Event subsystem*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EVENTDBG

Event subsystem debugging*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

VPN 3002 Hardware Client Reference

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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VPN 3002 specifications

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