Basic Alarm Configuration 4-7
Alarm Configuration
4. In the Alarm field, click to select one or both of the following options:
a. Select Log if you wish to create a silent log of alarm occurrences.
b. Select Send Trap if you want your device to issue a trap in response to
each alarm occurrence.
5. Any value you enter in the Community field will be included in any trap
messages issued by your SmartSwitch 6000 or Matrix E7 series mo dule in
response to the alarm(s) you are configuring. This value is also used to direct
traps related to this alarm to the appropriate management workstation(s):
a. If you enter a value in this field, traps related to the associated alarms
will only be sent to the network management stations in the device’s trap
table
which have been assigned the same community name
(and for
which traps have been enabled). Any IP addresses in the device’s trap
table which have
not
been assigned the same community string, or which
have been assigned no community string, will not receive traps related to
the alarm(s) you are configuring.
b. If you leave this field blank, traps related to the associated alarms will
be sent to any network management stations which have been added to
the device’s trap table, and for which traps have been enabled —
regardless of whether or not those IP addresses have been assigned a
community name in the trap table.
NOTES
In order for the trap selection to work properly, your SmartSwitch 6000 or Matrix E7
series module must be configured to send traps to your networ k man agemen t st a tio n. T h is
is accomplished via Local Management (or Remote Administration Tools) and the trap
table. Consult your device hardware manual for more information.
If you are monitoring a variable you consider to be critical, we do not recommend that
you select Trap as the only event response; if a trap is lost due to a collision or other
transmission problem, it will not be re-sent.
TIP
For more information about configuring the SmartSwitch 6000 or Matrix E7 series
module’s trap table, consult your Local Management documentation or the Remote
Administration Tools Guide. (Remember, no traps will be sent by your SmartSwitch
6000 or Matrix E7 series module at all unless its trap table has been properly
configured!)