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alarm is issued when a rising threshold is crossed. One or more alarms are
bound to an event. The event indicates the action to be taken when the alarm
occurs.
To add an RMON alarm:
1 Click Statistics/RMON > RMON > Alarms in the tree view to display
the Alarms: Summary page.
The currently-defined alarms are displayed.
2 To add a new alarm, click Add and enter the fields:
– Alarm Entry — Displays a new alarm entry.
– Port — Select the port or LAG for which RMON statistics are
displayed.
– Counter Name — Select the selected MIB variable.
– Sample Type — Select the sampling method for the selected variable
and comparing the value against the thresholds. The possible options
are:
•
Delta — Subtracts the last sampled value from the current value.
The difference in the values is compared to the threshold.
• Absolute — Compares the values directly with the thresholds at
the end of the sampling interval.
– Rising Threshold (0–2147483647) — Enter the rising counter value
that triggers the rising event alarm.
– Rising Event — Select one of the previously-defined events.
– Falling Threshold (0–2147483647) — Enter the falling counter value
that triggers the falling event alarm.
– Falling Event — Select one of the previously-defined events.
– Startup Alarm — Select the trigger that activates the alarm. The
possible options are:
•
Rising Alarm — A rising counter value triggers the alarm
• Falling Alarm — A falling counter value triggers the alarm.
• Rising and Falling — Both rising and falling counter values
trigger the alarm.