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ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide 5-1
5
The EPICenter Alarm System
This chapter describes how to use the ExtremeWare EPICenter Alarm System applet for:
• Viewing the alarms that have occurred
• Defining new alarms and modifying current alarm definitions
• Configuring RMON and CPU utilization trap conditions on devices
• Configuring EPICenter as a trap receiver
Overview of the EPICenter Alarm System
TheEPICenterAlarmSystemprovidesfaultdetectionandalarm handlingforthenetwork
devices monitored by EPICenter. This includes Extreme devices and some third-party
devices—those that EPICentercan include in its Inventory database. The Alarm System
provides a set of predefined, enabled alarms thatwill immediately report conditions such
as authentication or login failures, device problems such as power supply or fan failures,
reachability problems, or device reboots.
The Alarm System also lets you define your own alarms that will report errors under
conditions you specify, such as repeated occurrences or exceeding threshold values. You
canspecifytheactionsthatshouldbe takenwhenanalarm occurs,andyoucanenableand
disable individual alarms.
Fault detectionis based onSimple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps, and
somelimitedpolling. TheAlarmSystemsupportsSNMPManagementInformationBase-2
(MIB-2), the Extreme Networks private MIB, Remote Monitoring (RMON) traps, and