HP Network Direr Software Products High Severity Events, Critical Severity, Recurring Severity

322CHAPTER 8: THE EVENT LOG

created, opened or closed, successful completion of device backups, agents restarting, links becoming operational and so on.

Information severity is also used for proprietary SNMP trap-based events that 3Com Network Director does not have a specific decode for.

Warning Severity

The warning severity is used for events that indicate the presence of a potential problem on your network. Acting upon warning severity events allows you to take pre-emptive action to reduce the likelihood of a problem occurring.

Warning severity is also used for 3Com Network Director internal events that indicate the failure of an operation, such as an agent update that could not be performed.

High Severity Events

The high severity is used for events that indicate that a problem has occurred on your network that may result in a loss of connectivity for a limited number of users or may affect the reliability of your network.

Critical Severity

By default, the critical severity is only used for three event types in 3Com

Network Director:

Section of network down The Section of network down event is only generated when a group of devices in your network stop responding to monitoring polls, and so may indicate a major network outage.

Phone network down The Phone network down event is only generated when an NBX call processor stops responding to monitoring polls, and so may indicate a major disruption to telephony services on your network.

Voice network impacted The Voice network impacted event is only generated when there are outstanding events that may affect the quality of NBX telephony services on your network.

Recurring Severity

The recurring severity is used when the same event occurs repeatedly, which may indicate a problem or potential problem on your network. Rather than logging the same event multiple times, 3Com Network