User guide

Interfaces for Communicating with Devices The AlliedView Network Management System
Log Reference for SBx3100 and iMAP Series Switches (Overview of Logs / Alarms System)
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officer SEC> PING 172.16.17.18 (172.16.17.18)
64 bytes from 172.16.17.18 (172.16.17.18): icmp_seq=1
--- 172.16.17.18 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
1.2 The AlliedView Network Management System (NMS)
Just as the Allied Telesis devices can be set up to report certain events over certain interfaces, the AlliedView
NMS product uses parsing and filtering to ensure that any change of state in a device or set of devices can be
accessed and highlighted immediately.
To report events and alarms, the Allied AlliedView NMS uses the following tools:
Note: For a complete description of the AlliedView NMS parsing and filtering tools, refer to the AlliedView
NMS Administration Guide.
• Tra p P a r s e r
The Trap Parser creates and refines the information received from traps (specific unsolicited reports by a
device). These have the standard SNMP fields (sysOID, access agent, text strings, etc.).
Note: Trap parsers are critical to alarm correlation and should only be changed under the supervision of
Allied Telesis Technical Support personnel. Refer to Section 3 for a listing of traps produced by Allied
Telesis devices.
• Event Parser
TABLE 1-1 PING command
Noun Verb Syntax Description
PING PING PING={ ipaddress
| hostname
}
[ FROM
{ INTERFACE={ type:id
| id
| ifname
}
| IPADDRESS=ipaddress
} ]
[ DELAY=1..900 ]
[ LENGTH=1..8192 ]
[ NUMBER={ 1..65535
| CONTINUOUS
} ]
[ TIMEOUT=1..900 ]
The PING command provides the user with the ability
to determine whether a network device is accessible or
not.