Avaya G430 Manual page 56

Accessing the Branch Gateway
syslog messages and syslog message format, refer to
page 216.
MSS notifications are intercepted and, if certain conditions are met, may be forwarded to the
Avaya Security Operations Center (SOC) as INADS alarms. The SOC is an Avaya service
group that handles DoS alerts, responding as necessary to any DoS attack or related security
issue.
Note:
The syslog messages on the active MGC are stored in the messages file on the MGC hard
disk. You can view the syslog messages through the Avaya Maintenance Web Interface
(MWI) if you want to debug security issues directly. For information about how to view syslog
messages, see
Note:
Any additional SNMP recipients defined with the security notification group enabled also
receive the MSS notifications.
Configuring MSS
About this task
The MSS feature is automatically enabled and monitors all IP interfaces, including WAN data
interfaces, IPSEC tunnels, Ethernet LAN and WAN ports, VoIP engine interfaces, and Dialer
PPP interfaces.
Procedure
1. Verify that the dynamic trap manager that automatically sets the IP address of the
2. If required, define additional notification recipients using the snmp-server
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Viewing QoS traps, QoS fault traps, and QoS clear traps
active MGC SNMP trap manager, is configured so that security notifications are
sent to the active MGC.
By default, all types of notifications are enabled. You can enter show snmp to check
which notification groups are configured to be sent to the active MGC. You can
modify the dynamic trap manager configuration using the snmp-server
dynamic-trap-manager command, setting the notification type to all or
security.
group, snmp-server host, and snmp-server user commands, and
activating the security notification filter.
For example:
//define an SNMP group:
Gxxx-001(super)# snmp-server group MSS_group v3 noauth read iso write iso
notify iso
Done!
//create a new snmp user belonging to the SNMP group:
Gxxx-001(super)# snmp-server user MSS MSS_group v3
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Syslog server configuration
on page 366.
on
October 2013