Alarm Settings

Select this option if you want a sound to accompany every alarm that is triggered. This option is selected by default. If this option is selected, you can still make audible notification unavailable for individual alarms.

If you clear the check mark from this option, audible notification for all alarms is made unavailable. This behavior cannot be changed at the individual alarm level. (The audible notification field is unavailable at the individual alarm level.)

Select this option if you want the alarm system to send email notifications to specific people when an alarm is triggered.

To support email notifications, you must also configure notification profiles. The notification profiles assigned to each alarm determine who receives the email notifications.

This setting is not selected by default and emails are not sent when alarms are triggered.

Select this option if you want the alarm system to send SNMP (Simple Network Messaging Protocol) traps to the Network Management System (NMS) when alarms are triggered.

To support SNMP notifications, you must also set up notification profiles. The notification profiles assigned to each alarm determine the SNMP nodes to which SNMP traps are sent.

This field is not selected by default and SNMP traps are not sent when alarms are triggered.

After an alarm is acknowledged, the system makes the alarm inactive and places it in alarm history.

Type the maximum number of days that an alarm is displayed in alarm history. The default for this field is 7 days. After this period, the inactive (acknowledged) alarm is deleted from alarm history.

Alarm Priority Settings

Specifies the numeric value of the alarm priorities. By default, a priority of zero applies to alarms that have the least severity or effect on system performance. The priority value increases with the severity of the alarm.

The default settings are:

0 -Information - These alarms provide important status information but do not require any action by the administrator.

1 - Warning - Address these alarms in a timely manner. A Warning alarm indicates that the system is functioning, but likely not at an optimum level.

2 - Minor - Review these alarms and take action if necessary. Minor alarms often indicate problems that are self-correcting, or that do not have a significant impact on system performance.

3 - Major - Address these alarms immediately. If a major alarm is not addressed, the system fails either completely or partially.

You cannot change the first four default priority levels.

Shows the name of the alarm priority. By default, there are four alarm priorities: Information (0), Warning (1), Minor (2), and Major (3), representing severity levels for each alarm.

You can change the name of an alarm priority by typing a new name in the Name box and clicking Save. Changing a priority name on this screen also changes the priority name on other user interface screens where the priority appears.

You can also add new alarm priorities or delete unassigned alarm priorities that you have created.

Shows Yes if the alarm priority has been applied to an alarm, and No if it has not been applied to an alarm.

By default, each of the four standard priorities is applied to alarms.

SNMP Node Settings

Add an SNMP node to make it available to be assigned to a notification profile List of email addresses or SNMP nodes assigned to an alarm. If the alarm is triggered, the email addresses and the SNMP nodes receive a notification.. SNMP nodes assigned to notification profiles receive SNMP traps when alarms are triggered.

Complete these fields only when SNMPv3 is deployed in your enterprise. The V3 Node Settings are common to every SNMPv3 node in the enterprise

Specifies the port on the SNMP agent to which SNMP queries are sent during the discovery and monitoring processes. This port number is required. The default port is port 161.

Specify the protocol used to authenticate all SNMPv3 messages, Possible values are:

• None

• MD5

• SHA-1

The default value is None.

Specify the protocol used to encrypt all SNMPv3 messages. Possible values are:

• None

• DES

• AES128

The default value is None.

Specify the password used to encrypt all SNMPv3 messages. You must enter a password here when the Privacy Protocol field specifies a setting other than None.

The minimum length of the password is eight characters and the maximum length is 200. The password can include upper-case letters, lower-case letters, and numbers. The password is encrypted using CCL encryption.

Complete these fields to add individual v1, v2c, or v3 SNMP nodes to the system

Type the name of an SNMP trap configuration, such as Atlanta SNMP server. The name can be a maximum of 100 characters,

Type the host name or IP address of the server to which the SNMP trap message is sent. This value can be a maximum of 100 characters.

Type the port number on which the SNMP server specified in the SNMP Manager Host setting listens for SNMP traps. The default port is port 162.

Type the name used to identify the group to which SNMP devices and management stations belong. The community name acts as a weak password that is required for the NMS to consider the trap valid. This value can be a maximum of 100 characters.

This field is used only for SNMPv3 nodes. Specify the user name used to authenticate SNMPv3 messages for this node. You must enter a user name in this field when the Authentication Protocol field specifies a value other than None.

The minimum length of the user name is six characters and the maximum length is 32. You can use upper-case letters, lower-case letters, and numbers in this field.

This field is used only for SNMPv3 nodes. Specify the password used to authenticate SNMPv3 messages for this node. You must enter a password in this field when the Authentication Protocol field specifies a value other than None.

The minimum length of the password is eight characters and the maximum length is 200. You can use upper-case letters, lower-case letters, and numbers in the password. The password is encrypted using CCL encryption.