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Chapter 3 Getting Started
Starting Cisco EMF and Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager
Notification Profiles
An important aspect of a monitoring system which captures and reacts to events on the network is when
and how a network operator is informed of these events. The Event Manager uses notifications for this.
For example, when the temperature of a line card rises 10 degrees above normal an e-mail might be sent
to the network operator warning of a potential problem and a minor event might be generated if the
temperature does not fall to within ten degrees of normal within twenty minutes.
Notification profiles are collections of notifications. Each notification profile has a name and description
and can be accessed by all Event Manager users. Each includes a list of notifications, and is run
following a trigger, which could be an event entering an event group, or a threshold breach in a
thresholding regime. For example, when the first event is received by an event group a notification
profile may be triggered which causes a sound to occur which alerts the operator. As well as audible
alerts, a notification could be set up to display on screen, or to trigger an external notification such as an
e-mail.
Refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide Release 3.2 for further details on the
Notification Profiles application.
Thresholding Regimes
A Thresholding Regime is a set of threshold conditions for specified object attributes which, when
breached, causes one or more notification profiles to be run. The Thresholding Regime defines which
attributes should be polled and on what period, and defines the thresholding conditions. The
Thresholding Regime specifies object groups which contain the objects whose attributes will be polled.
Refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide Release 3.2 for further details on the
Thresholding Regimes application.
Event Groups
Event Groups allows you to organize network elements into event groups, and also view the status of
these groups as scoreboards. Users can create, delete and modify event groups and scoreboards. Event
groups are available to all users.
Event groups can be any combination of objects derived from the managed object class. These groups
are set up using queries which can be configured to match your requirements. For example, you could
choose to monitor a particular device, specify a time period, and choose to look at events which are
warnings or critical. You define a query so that the event group only includes the events which meet the
criteria you define. As soon as the group is created it starts monitoring against the criteria specified in
the event query setup. Event groups created in the Event Groups application are persistent, they are not
cleared when the application is closed.
The Event Groups application also enables you to view the events associated with an event group in a
scoreboard format. This displays the overall status of the event group as a pie chart, with the associated
severity color coding. A scoreboard also shows the total number of events which have entered the event
group and the highest severity of the events in the group. An icon is displayed when a running
notification has been set up for the event group.
Event Groups is opened from the Launchpad.
Refer to the Cisco Element Management Framework User Guide Release 3.2 for further details on the
Event Groups application.