Viewing, Delivering, And Responding To Triggers And Alerts; Viewing Triggers; Creating New Triggers - Dell PowerConnect W-AirWave 7.6 User Manual

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Event The event AirWave observed; useful for debugging, user tracking, and change tracking.

Viewing, Delivering, and Responding to Triggers and Alerts

This section describes triggers and alerts and contain the following topics:
"Viewing Triggers" on page 191
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"Creating New Triggers" on page 191
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"Delivering Triggered Alerts" on page 199
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"Viewing Alerts" on page 199
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"Responding to Alerts" on page 200
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AirWave monitors key aspects of wireless LAN performance. When certain parameters or conditions arise that are
outside normal bounds, AirWave generates (or triggers) alerts that enable you to address problems, frequently before
users have a chance to report them.

Viewing Triggers

To view defined system triggers, navigate to the System > Triggers page.
Figure 129:
System > Triggers Page Illustration (partial view)
"Creating New Triggers" on page 191
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Creating New Triggers

Perform the following steps to create and configure one or more new triggers. These steps define settings that are
required for any type of trigger.
1. To create a new trigger, select the Add New Trigger button from the System > Triggers page. The page that
appears is illustrated in
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Group—A group-wide event.
System—A system-wide event.
Alert—If a trigger is configured to report to the log, an Alert type event will be logged here.
Figure 130.
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illustrates this page.