Defining Rmon Events Control - Cisco SF500-24 Administration Manual

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Cisco 500 Series Stackable Managed Switch Administration Guide

Defining RMON Events Control

You can control the occurrences that trigger an alarm and the type of notification
that occurs when an alarm is triggered. This is performed as follows:
• Events Page—Configures what happens when an alarm is triggered. This
can be any combination of logs and traps.
• Alarms Page—Configures the occurrences that trigger an alarm.
To define RMON events:
Click Status and Statistics > RMON > Events. The Events page is displayed.
This page displays previously-defined events.
Add RMON Events
Click Add. The
Enter the parameters.
• Event Entry—Displays the event entry index number for the new entry.
• Community—Enter the SNMP community string to be included when traps
are sent (optional).
• Description—Enter a name for the event. This name is used in the Add
RMON Alarm page to attach an alarm to an event.
• Notification Type—Select the type of action that results from this event.
Values are:
- None—No action occurs when the alarm goes off.
- Log (Event Log Table)—Add a log entry to the Event Log table when the
alarm goes off.
- Trap (SNMP Manager and SYSLOG Server)—Send a trap to the remote
log server when the alarm goes off.
- Log and Trap—Add a log entry to the Event Log table and send a trap to
the remote log server when the alarm goes off.
• Time—The time of the event. (This is a read-only table in the parent window
and cannot be defined).
• Owner—Enter the device or user that defined the event.
Click Apply. The RMON event is written to the Running Configuration file.
page is displayed.
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