Event Manager; Hot Standby; Integrated Radius/Aaa Serverradius - Symbol WS5000 Series System Reference Manual

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1.4.3 Event Manager

An event notification system monitors an administrator-configured set of events in network performance. The
switch uses the Event Notification manager to log and collect application and system events on remote or local
system log (Syslog) collectors or servers.
Events are conditions about which the network administrator should be notified. The network administrator
can configure the switch to send event notifications using SNMP to an SNMP trap server, to the switch local
log, or to a Syslog server. The administrator can select the events to be notified about and the appropriate
severity level.

1.4.4 Hot Standby

You can use the WS5000 Series Switch in the hot standby mode, but when the switch is in this mode it will
not adopt ant primary access ports.The hot standby system only adopts APs after it detects that the primary
system it monitors failed. The system administrator should export the primary system's configuration into the
backup switch. After importing, the administrator should place the switch in the backup mode. The backup
switch can monitor only one primary machine at a time.
The hot standby switch adopts the APs defined by the switch policy rules. The primary switch license
determines the number of APs. The primary switch sends the current number of licenses during its regular
communication with the standby switch. The primary switch does not communicate policy configuration
information; the system administrator must manually export or import it. The communication between the
switches is an ongoing process, so if you change the number of active licenses on the primary switch while it
runs, the standby adopts the appropriate number of access ports during a fail-over. For maximum robustness
it is recommended that both primary and standby switches run the same version of the switch.

1.4.5 Integrated Radius/AAA ServerRadius

The WS5000 Wireless Switch provides an integrated Radius server as well as the ability to work with external
Radius and LDAP servers to provide user database information and user authentication. Radius configuration
supports:
• Configuring appropriate authentication types
• Configuring Clients
• Configuring External Proxy Servers
• Configuring LDAP Servers