Severity To Console; Severity To Syslog; Severity To Email; Severity To Trap - Cisco VPN 3000 User Manual

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Events

Severity to Console

Click the drop-down menu button and select the range of event severity levels to display on the console
by default. Choices are: None , 1 , 1-2 , 1-3 , ..., 1-13 . The default is 1-3 : all events of severity level 1 through
severity level 3 are displayed on the console.

Severity to Syslog

Click the drop-down menu button and select the range of event severity levels to send to a UNIX syslog
server by default. Choices are: None , 1 , 1-2 , 1-3 , ..., 1-6 . The default is None : no events are sent to a syslog
server.
If you select any severity levels to send, you must also configure the syslog server(s) on the Configuration
| System | Events | Syslog Servers

Severity to Email

Click the drop-down menu button and select the range of event severity levels to email to recipients by
default. Choices are: None , 1 , 1-2 , 1-3 . The default is None : no events are sent via email.
If you select any severity levels to email, you must also configure an SMTP server on the Configuration |
System | Events | SMTP Servers
System | Events | Email Recipients

Severity to Trap

Click the drop-down menu button and select the range of event severity levels to send to an SNMP
network management system by default. Event messages sent to SNMP systems are called "traps."
Choices are: None , 1 , 1-2 , 1-3 . The default is None : no events are sent as SNMP traps.
If you select any severity levels to send, you must also configure SNMP destination system parameters
on the Configuration | System | Events | Trap Destinations screens.
The VPN Concentrator can send the standard, or "well-known," SNMP traps listed in Table 10-3. To
have an SNMP NMS receive them, you must configure the events as in the table, and configure a trap
destination.

Table 10-3: Configuring "well-known" SNMP traps

To send this "well-known" SNMP
trap
coldStart
linkDown
linkUp
authFailure
(This trap is SNMP authentication
failure, not tunnel authentication
failure.)
10-8
screens.
screens, and you must configure email recipients on the Configuration |
screens. You should also configure the Email Source Address above.
Configure either General event
handling or this Event Class
EVENT
IP
IP
SNMP
With this Severity to Trap
1 or higher
1-3 or higher
1-3 or higher
1-3 or higher
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