- Enterasays User's Guide SmartSwitch 2000

Alarm Limits 5-13
Managing Ethernet MicroLAN Switches
Alarm Limits
Using the Alarm Limits windows, you can configure alarm limits for the Ethernet
MicroLAN Switch at the repeater, board, and port levels; these alarms will notify
you – via traps sent to NetSight Element Manager’s alarm logging facility – that
your system has experienced a certain percentage of collisions or errors, or a
certain number of specific packet types, within a user-defined time interval. You
can also use the board- and port-level Alarms windows to disable a board or port
in response to an alarm condition.
Accessing the Alarm Limits Windows
To open the repeater-level Alarm Limits window from the Chassis View:
1. Click on R
epeater on the Chassis View menu bar; a menu listing the available
repeater channels opens.
2. Select the appropriate repeater channel (A
- H) to reveal the Repeater menu.
3. Click on A
larm Limits. The Repeater Alarm Limits window, Figure 5-6,
opens.
NOTE
In order for your device to issue any traps – and in order for your management
workstation to receive those traps – your Ethernet MicroLAN Switch’s trap table must
have been properly configured via Local Management; see the Ethernet MicroLAN Switch
hardware manual for more information.
TIP
Although you can access the Alarm Limits window at both the repeater and board levels,
note that setting alarms at those two levels will have the same effect, as each Ethernet
MicroLAN Switch “board” is equivalent to a repeater channel.