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• Normal — An event that describes the successful operation of a unit, such
as a power supply turning on, or a sensor reading returning to normal
•
Warning — An event that is not necessarily significant, but may indicate a
possible future problem, such as crossing a warning threshold
•
Critical — A significant event that indicates actual or imminent loss of
data or loss of function, such as crossing a failure threshold or a hardware
failure
SNMP Trap Based Severity Propagation
The severity propagation for the managed nodes is different for Nodes view
and the Service Map view.
Table 3-3 describes the severity propagation based on SNMP traps.
Table 3-3. Severity Propagation Behavior
View Description
Nodes View The node status displays the highest severity of all the active
messages. This status is propagated to the parent node groups.
To know the actual health of the node, view the status in the
Global System Status service.
Service Map View The SNMP Traps service displays the highest severity of all the
active trap messages of the corresponding node. This is not
propagated to the parent services. The Global System Status
service displays the present health status of the corresponding
node, and this is propagated to the parent object.
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