Performance Management on Virtual Services Platform 4000 Series Version 5.1.2

12. In the FallingEventIndex box, type a falling threshold event index.
13. In the Owner box, type the owner of the alarm.
14. Click Insert.
Alarms field descriptions
Use the data in the following table to use the Alarms tab.
Name Description
Index Uniquely identifies an entry in the alarm table. Each entry defines a diagnostic
sample at a particular interval for an object on the device. The default is 1.
Interval Specifies the interval, in seconds, over which the data is sampled and compared
with the rising and falling thresholds. deltaValue sampling—Configures the
interval short enough that the sampled variable is unlikely to increase or
decrease by more than 2^31–1 during a single sampling interval.
Variable Specifies the object identifier of the particular variable to be sampled. Only
variables that resolve to an ASN.1 primitive type of INTEGER (INTEGER,
Counter, Gauge, or TimeTicks) can be sampled.
Alarm variables exist in three formats, depending on the type:
• A chassis, power supply, or fan-related alarm ends in x where the x index is
hard-coded. No further information is required.
• A card, spanning tree group (STG), or EtherStat alarm ends with a dot (.). You
must enter a card number, STG ID, IP address, or EtherStat information.
• A port alarm ends with no dot or index and requires that you use the port
shortcut menu. An example of a port alarm is ifInOctets (interface incoming
octet count).
Because the system articulates SNMP access control entirely in terms of the
contents of MIB views, no access control mechanism exists to restrict the value
of this object to identify only those objects that exist in a particular MIB view.
Because no acceptable means of restricting the read access that is obtained
through the alarm mechanism exists, the probe must grant only write access to
this object in those views that have read access to all objects on the probe.
After you configure a variable, if the supplied variable name is not available in
the selected MIB view, the system returns a badValue error. After the variable
name of an established alarmEntry is no longer available in the selected MIB
view, the probe changes the status of this alarmEntry to invalid.
You cannot modify this object if the associated alarmStatus object is equal to
valid.
SampleType
Specifies the method of sampling the selected variable and calculating the value
to be compared against the thresholds. If the value of this object is
absoluteValue, the value of the system compares the selected variable directly
with the thresholds at the end of the sampling interval. If the value of this object
Table continues…
Creating an RMON1 alarm
January 2017 Performance Management on Avaya VSP 4000 Series 171
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