Alarms and Traps
Setting Alarms
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About Alarm Owner Strings
NetMetrix RMON alarms use the alarm owner string to pass useful
information back to the management station. The string contains four
fields, delimited by ^ characters:
version^alarm description^status_chars^actual owner string
where:
Example:
2^multicast > 100/10sec^083011^kelley@mickey (Kelley Sun May 21 10:21:24 1995)
version Version number; always 2.
alarm
description
The alarm’s description (specified in the Configure
Alarm window, shown on page 433).
status_chars A string of six characters, as follows:
Position Description
1 Threshold type: 0=above, 1=below, as
configured in the Configure Alarm window
(shown on page 433).
2 Rising event severity.
3 Falling event severity.
Severity values: 0=Critical, 7=Major,
8=Minor, 1=Warning, 2=Informational,
3=Normal.
4 Sample type (specified in the Configure
Alarm window, shown on page 433):
0=Units per second, 1=Absolute, 2=Delta,
3=Percent.
5 Indicates whether a “rising” script is
configured; not used by NetMetrix/UX.
6 Indicates whether a “falling” script is
configured; not used by NetMetrix/UX.
actual owner
string
The actual owner string, which is displayed in the
Configure Alarm window, shown on page 433.
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