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3.6 Viewing the Switch Alarm Log

Use the

Alarm Log

screen as an initial snapshot for alarm log information. Use this screen to expand alarms

for greater detail, delete alarms, acknowledge alarms or export alarm data to a user-specified location.

To view switch Alarm Log information:

1. Select

Switch

>

Alarm Log

from the main menu tree.

2. Use the Alarm Log screen’s filtering options as required to view alarm log data by page or the by entire

content.

3. Select either of the two available options to view alarm log information:

4. Refer to the table within the

Alarm Log

screen for the following information:

View By Page

Select the

View By Page

radio button to view alarm log information on a per page basis.

Use the View By Page option to display alarm logs in pages. If there are a large number of
alarms, the user can navigate to the page that has been completely loaded. All operations
can be performed on the currently loaded data. Enter a page number next to “Page” and click
the

Go

button to move to the specific page.

View All

Select the

View All

radio button to display the complete alarm log with in the table. If there

are a large number of alarms, the View All option will take several minutes to load.

Index

Displays the unique numerical identifier for trap events (alarms) generated in the system.
Use the index to help differentiate the alarm from other alarms with similar attributes.

Status

Displays the current state of the requests made from the applet. Requests are any “SET/
GET” operation from the applet. The Status displays error messages if something goes
wrong in the transaction between the applet and the switch.