Event Log Options - Enterasys Netsight User Manual

Overview of NetSight Element Manager
Chassis Manager Settings
The Chassis Manager settings let you establish how the Chassis Manager and
SmartSwitch/Matrix Chassis View applications poll a monitored device. There are two
settings which you can configure:
Poll Rate
The interval, in seconds, at which the Chassis Manager or SmartSwitch/Matrix Chassis
View will poll a device to check whether it is alive on the network (i.e., has a green
contact status).
To change the poll rate:
1. Click in the Poll Rate text field, and type in the interval to be used when
Retries
The Retries field determines the number of polls that the Chassis Manager or
SmartSwitch/Matrix Chassis View will issue to a device after the first failed poll before
declaring a lost contact state. To change the Retries setting:
1. Click in the Retries text field, and type in the number of polls which must fail
You can also edit the ctron.ini file (located in the /windows directory for Windows 2000,
or in the /winnt directory for Windows NT) to specify the interval between retry polls from
TIP
Chassis Manager or the SmartSwitch Chassis View. Alter the
BackgroundTrysInterval=X line, where X is the number of seconds between retry polls.
The default setting is 15 seconds.

Event Log Options

The Event Log options
service's event cache (which stores trap and event information). The event cache is a
memory-mapped data file that is activated when NetSight Element Manager's alarm and
event service initializes. All traps and events that are received are uniquely identified and
stored in this file. The file is a wrap-around buffer which overwrites the earliest entries
with each new incoming trap or event. Refer to your Alarm and Event Handling User's
Guide, included in your documentation set, for more information about the event cache
and other aspects of alarm and event handling.
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Chassis Manager polls a device for its contact status. The range is from 5 to
9999 seconds; the default is 30 seconds.
(after the initial poll failure) before Chassis Manager declares that contact is
unavailable. The range is from 0 to 10 retries; the default is 2 retries.
(Figure 2-13) allow you to set the size of the alarm and event
Customizing NetSight Element Manager