Managing Faults on Virtual Services Platform 7200 Series and 8000 Series Version 5

Important:
The switch does not reply to SNMP requests sent to the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
(VRRP) virtual interface address; it does, however, reply to SNMP requests sent to the physical
IP address.
An SNMP manager and agent communicate through the SNMP protocol. A manager sends queries
and an agent responds; however, an agent initiates traps. Several types of packets transmit
between SNMP managers and agents:
• Get request—This message requests the values of one or more objects.
• Get next request—This message requests the value of the next object.
• Set request—This message requests to modify the value of one or more objects.
• Get response—An SNMP agent sends this message in response to a get request, get next
request, or set request message.
• Trap—SNMP trap is a notification triggered by events at the agent.
Log message format
The log messages for the switch have a standardized format. All system messages are tagged with
the following information, except that alarm type and alarm status apply to alarm messages only:
• Avaya proprietary (AP) format—Provides encrypted information for debugging purposes
• CPU slot number—Indicates the CP slot where the command is logged.
• timestamp—Records the date and time at which the event occurred. The format is MM/DD/YY
hh:mm:ss.uuu, where uuu is milliseconds. Example: [11/01/10 11:41:21.376].
• event code—Precisely identifies the event reported.
• alarm code—Specifies the alarm code.
• alarm type—identifies the alarm type (Dynamic or Persistent) for alarm messages
• alarm status—identifies the alarm status (set or clear) for alarm messages
• VRF name—Identifies the Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instance, if applicable.
• module name—Identifies the software module or hardware from which the log is generated.
• severity level—Identifies the severity of the message.
• sequence number—Identifies a specific CLI command.
• context—Specifies the type of the session used to connect to the switch. If the session is a
remote session, the remote IP address is identified.
• user name—Specifies the user name used to login to the switch.
• ACLI command—Specifies the commands typed during the ACLI session. The system logs
anything type during the ACLI session as soon as the user enters the Enter key.
Log message format
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