Specifications

Clarifications, Known Behaviors, and Resolved Issues

EPICenter Release Note

Configuring EPICenter to Generate Alarms for SNMP-Unreachable

Devices at Each Poll Interval

EPICenter periodically checks the SNMP reachability status of managed devices, using a default poll

interval of 5 minutes. If a managed device is unreachable through SNMP, an alarm is generated in

EPICenter (and e-mail notifications are sent, if this is part of the alarm definition).

The default behavior is for the alarm to be generated only once, when the device is first found to be

SNMP-unreachable. No further alarms are generated, although EPICenter keeps polling the device at

the configured SNMP poll interval.

Starting with this release, you can configure EPICenter to generate SNMP unreachable alarms at each

poll interval when a managed device is not SNMP reachable, instead of just once. For example, if the

SNMP poll interval is 5 minutes, EPICenter would generate a new alarm every 5 minutes as long as the

device is SNMP unreachable.

To configure EPICenter to generate alarms for SNMP unreachable devices at each poll interval, do the

following:

1 Using a text editor, open the

management.properties file, which resides in

<EPICenter_install_dir>/extreme.war on the EPICenter server.

2 Change the value of the

EmitSnmpUnreachableEventAlways property to TRUE. This causes an alarm

to be generated each time EPICenter polls the device and finds it to be SNMP unreachable.

The default value of

FALSE causes EPICenter to generate an SNMP unreachable alarm only once, when

the device is first found to be SNMP unreachable. (PD3-202315601)

Displaying Text In Telnet Windows

Starting in this release, the EPICenter Telnet window can display a maximum of 220 text characters on a

line. When the number of text characters displayed on a line exceeds the width of the Telnet window, a

scroll bar appears at the bottom of the window so you can display the additional text. The scroll bar

adjusts dynamically according to the number of characters being typed or displayed. (PD3-182606694)

Specifying the IP Address a Multi-homed Server Uses for

Configuration Uploads and Downloads

If the EPICenter server is a multi-homed machine, and configured with more than one IP address, by

default the server uses the IP address specified by the EPICENTER_SERVER_ADDRESS environment

variable to communicate with its managed devices.

Starting in this release, you can specify which of the multi-homed server’s IP addresses is used for

configuration uploads and downloads for specific devices or for a given network. This IP address does

not necessarily have to be the one specified by the EPICENTER_SERVER_ADDRESS environment

variable.

For example, if the multi-homed server has IP addresses of 192.168.254.1 and 136.159.39.1, with the

EPICENTER_SERVER_ADDRESS environment variable set to 192.168.254.1, you can specify that

EPICenter use address 136.159.39.1 for configuration uploads and downloads for devices in the

136.159.39.x network.