Managing and Manipulating Events | 19 |
Managing and | The Network Supervisor Event List greatly improves your ability to |
Manipulating | prioritize and react to problems on your network. |
Events |
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Intelligent Event | Network Supervisor generates events intelligently. For example, to |
Generation | prevent utilization ‘spikes’ causing unnecessary events, the threshold set |
| must be exceeded for a reasonable period of time (determined by |
| Network Supervisor) before an event is generated. |
| This means that Network Supervisor will produce a more accurate |
| representation of what is effectively one incident, than if it generated an |
| event every time the threshold was passed. |
| The events in the Event List are generated internally by Network |
| Supervisor, they are not SNMP traps generated by network devices. |
Network Supervisor provides the following to help you manage generated events:
■Filtering
■Commenting
■Sorting
■Acknowledging
■Ageing
Filtering
Filtering temporarily removes entries from the Event List to provide a clear view of a selected type of event. You can filter on various criteria including event severity, time and description.
Commenting
The Comment facility lets you write and attach notes about events relating to specific devices or links. You may want to include information about why an event occurred previously and a suggested solution.
You can then filter events based on the content of a comment, searching for information to help solve a newly discovered problem.
