Enterasys Networks Matrix E7 Configuring Alarms, Within, Setting the Alarm Limits Time Interval

Managing Ethernet MicroLAN Modules

NOTE

For more detailed definitions of these statistics and information on the possible network conditions they represent, consult the Enterasys Network Troubleshooting Guide, included with this package.

within:

This field displays the user-configurable alarm limit timer interval: the amount of time the selected statistics will be counted before being compared to the configured thresholds. The allowable values are 10 seconds to 23 hrs/59 mins/59 secs.

Configuring Alarms

You configure alarms by choosing the alarm you wish to enable, setting the threshold to the desired level, and selecting a time interval within which that threshold must occur. You can base the alarms on:

•Number of collisions per good packet

•Number of total packets

•Number of broadcast packets

•Percentage of error packets

You can also configure board or port alarm limits so that the board or port will be disabled when an alarm limit is reached.

Setting the Alarm Limits Time Interval

To set the time interval within which the defined alarm thresholds must be reached in order to trigger an alarm:

1.Click on the clock symbol next to the within: text box in any one of the alarm limits windows; the interval you set applies to all configured alarms at all levels. The Alarm Interval window, Figure 5-9, will appear.

Figure 5-9. The Alarm Interval Window

2. Highlight the hour text box (the first box to the left).

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