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Cabletron Systems 2000 User Manual

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Alarm Configuration

3-10

Basic Alarm Configuration

Figure 3-2. Basic Alarm Log

The top portion of the Basic Alarm Log window contains the device information
boxes, as well as the Port Number assigned to the interface that experienced the
alarm condition and the type of alarm that was triggered; the remainder of the
window contains the following information about each alarm occurrence:

Index

This index number uniquely identiÞes each occurrence of
a rising or falling event. Note that, since the alarm whose
log is displayed in

Figure 3-2

experienced both rising and

falling alarms, there are two sets of event indices: one
which identiÞes each instance of the rising alarm, and
one which identiÞes each instance of the falling alarm.

Time

Indicates the date and time of each event occurrence.

TIP

For more information about the relationship between rising and falling alarms and the
hysteresis function that controls the generation of alarm events, see

How Rising and

Falling Thresholds Work

, on

page 3-28

.

NOTE

In accordance with Year 2000 compliance requirements, SPECTRUM Element Manager
now displays and allows you to set all dates with four-digit year values.