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ExtremeWare EPICenter Software Installation and User Guide 5-19
Defining Alarms
d Click the Add button to add port 10 to the Selection list.
3 Click the Action tab, and do the following:
a Click the Email to: check boxto turn on the check.
b Type
[e-mail] in the text field next to the checkbox.
4 Click OK to finish the alarm definition.
Example 2: Define an alarm that will page “Joe” at “[e-mail]” if any port
on device “switch8” goes down.
1 Bring up the New Alarm Definition dialog. Fill in the fields on the Basic page just as
you did in Example 1.
2 Under the Scope tab, do the following:
a Select “Device” in the Source Type field, instead of “Port.”
b Select “switch8” from the Device list as in Example 1.
c Click the Add button to add switch8 to the Selection list. No ifIndex list will be
displayed.
3 Click the Action tab, and enter Joe’s paging information as you did in Example 1.
4 Click OK to finish the alarm definition.
Example3:InaWindowsNT environment(whereboththeEPICenterserver and client are
running under Windows), define an alarm that will pop up a message on the Windows
clientsystem“joe”iftheportutilizationonport10ondevice“switch8”exceeds15percent.
This alarm requires an RMON rule with a Rising Threshold of 15 percent for port
utilization. You can define the RMON rule either before or after you define the alarm. See
“RMON Rule Configuration Example” on page 5-34 for an example of how to create the
RMON rule.
To create the alarm definition:
1 Bring up the New Alarm Definition dialog. On the Basic page, fill in the Name and
Category fields, and check the Enabled checkbox, just as you did in Example 1.
a Select “RMON Rising Trap” in the Event Type field.
b Enter the RMON rule name in the Event Name field:
If you have already created the RMON rule, you can select it from the pull-down
menu in the Event Name field. For example, if you named the rule “WAN Link
15%”, that name should appear in the pull-down menu.