Managing and Manipulating Events

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Managing and

The Network Supervisor Event List greatly improves your ability to

Manipulating

prioritize and react to problems on your network.

Events

 

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.