Owner's Manual

Table 11. Power Center Event Severity Levels

Severity Level Icon Description

Critical Errors that cause managed devices or

Power Center to stop working

properly. You must take action to

resolve the issue.

Warning Errors requiring attention. You should

look into the root cause to determine

whether to take action.

Informative Event that is not an error or warning.

This is an informational event; you do

not need to take action.

Viewing Events

You can see the critical events notification from the Current Status section in the left pane of the Power Center

management console, with the total critical events number shown.

You can view events from the following pages:

• Groups – Lists events at Critical and Warning severity levels only, from most recent to earlier. Displays events at

different device/group levels. The events you see at a device/group level include all events that occurred on

within this device/group.

• Event Logs – Lists all events at all severity levels.

Sorting Events

On the Event Logs page, by default, the events are listed by Timestamp in descending order (from most recent to older).

To sort by a field, click the Up or Down symbol next to the field to list events in ascending or descending order. The

symbol of the current sorted field is displayed in orange.

Editing Events

You can add comments to events to help track occurrences in your network environment— for example, you might add

a comment describing why an event was triggered or the action that was taken.

1. Go to the Event Logs page.

2. Click the icon in the Comments column.

The Event Comment window opens.

3. Click Add Comment that is 512 characters or less.

4. Enter your comment in the Descriptions field, and then click Apply.

NOTE: You cannot edit a comment after clicking Apply. You can only add more comments. Power Center

automatically adds User Name and Time Stamp information to each comment.

Deleting Events

Power Center automatically deletes old events according to your database purge settings. For more information on

database purge settings, see Database Policy Settings.

You can also manually delete events in Power Center.