Viewing alarms, Cisco 12000/10720 router trap support – Cisco 12000/10700 V3.1.1 User Manual

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Chapter 18 Fault Management

Cisco 12000/10720 Router Trap Support

propagation. The interface alarm would be propagated up the hierarchy to site level. This means that
whatever level you are working at, you will see that an alarm has occurred. You can follow the path to
discover where the alarm exists.

Note

Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager is complimented by the Event Manager application. Among other
features, the Event Manager enables you to set thresholds for certain system parameters and to monitor
any supported Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager MIB variables. Refer to the Cisco Element
Management Framework User Guide
for further information.

Viewing Alarms

Alarms can be viewed using the Event Browser application that is part of the Cisco EMF.

Event Browser can be launched in two ways:

Click the Events icon in the Launchpad to launch the Event Browser application. The Event Browser
window appears.

Event Browser allows you to view all alarms on all objects. The Query Editor window appears
automatically when you launch the Event Browser application. The Query Editor allows you to set
up a query (or filter) that allows you to filter all the alarms available and display only the alarms
matching the query criteria you selected.

When the event browser is launched against an object, by default, all the alarms against that object
and its descendents are displayed in the event browser. For e.g., if the event browser is launched
against a chassis, then by default it displays all the alarms against the chassis and the module and
interfaces objects available in that chassis. Refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework
User Guide
for further details on using the Event Browser.

To view a specific alarm on one object, open the Map Viewer application (Viewer), right-click the
object that generated the alarm, then choose Tools>Open Event Browser. The selected object alarm
and its child objects alarms are displayed. You can open the Query Editor from the Event Browser
window to modify your criteria to include only the selected object. Refer to the Cisco Element
Management Framework User Guide
for detailed information on using the Query Editor.

Note

The maximum number of cleared alarms stored against an object is 300. When this value is reached, the
cleared alarms are deleted until there are only 150 alarms left against the object.

Cisco 12000/10720 Router Trap Support

When a fault occurs on a managed object in the network, Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager receives
immediate notification, through a “trap” that is sent through the network. This trap manifests itself as an
alarm in Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager. A trap of any of the above category can be one of five
severity types:

Critical

Major

Warning

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