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Notification Log Commands

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Systems that support SNMP often need a mechanism for recording

Notification information as a hedge against lost notifications, whether

those are Traps or Informs that exceed retransmission limits. The

Notification Log MIB (NLM, RFC 3014) provides an infrastructure in

which information from other MIBs may be logged.

Given the service provided by the NLM, individual MIBs can now bear

less responsibility to record transient information associated with an

event against the possibility that the Notification message is lost, and

applications can poll the log to verify that they have not missed any

important Notifications.

If notification logging is not configured and enabled, when the switch

reboots, some SNMP traps (such as warm start) cannot be logged.

To avoid this problem, notification logging should be configured and

enabled using the snmp-server notify-filter command and

nlm

command, and these commands stored in the startup configuration file.

Then when the switch reboots, SNMP traps (such as warm start) can

now be logged.

When this command is executed, a notification log is created (with the

default parameters defined in RFC 3014). Notification logging is

enabled by default (see the

nlm

command), but will not start recording

information until a logging profile specified with this command is

enabled with the

nlm

command.

Based on the default settings used in RFC 3014, a notification log can

contain up to 256 entries, and the entry aging time is 1440 minutes.

Information recorded in a notification log, and the entry aging time can

only be configured using SNMP from a network management station.

When a trap host is created with the

snmp-server host

command, a

default notify filter will be created as shown in the example under the

show snmp notify-filter

command.

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This example first creates an entry for a remote host, and then instructs

the switch to record this device as the remote host for the specified

notification log.

Console(config)#snmp-server host 10.1.19.23 batman

Console(config)#snmp-server notify-filter A1 remote 10.1.19.23

Console(config)