Re: logging trap severity level for category "alarms"

From: Bajo (bajoalex@gmail.com)
Date: Wed May 31 2006 - 10:12:41 ART


Where do u come up with these tricky questions? :)

Usually alarms are user-defined and are a subset of events. May be the task
is looking for "rmon alarm" definitions with a given MIB? From my
experience, WARN, INFO, and notifications are just events ( and not
categorized as alarms).

On 5/31/06, Koen Zeilstra <koen@koenzeilstra.com> wrote:
>
> Ok. Assuming the mapping in the router is correct:
>
> router(config)#logging trap ?
> <0-7> Logging severity level
> alerts Immediate action needed (severity=1)
> critical Critical conditions (severity=2)
> debugging Debugging messages (severity=7)
> emergencies System is unusable (severity=0)
> errors Error conditions (severity=3)
> informational Informational messages (severity=6)
> notifications Normal but significant conditions (severity=5)
> warnings Warning conditions (severity=4)
> <cr>
>
> Which one is category "alarms"???
>
>
>
> -----------------------
> Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.
> -- Leonard Brandwein
>
> On Wed, 31 May 2006, Bajo wrote:
>
> | The higher number in severity (which the lower severity) covers all the
> | numbers below ( which is higher severity)". From the Doc CD "specifying
> the
> | level *critical* causes messages as the critical (3), alert (2), and
> | emergency (1) levels to be saved to the logging history table. " ( I
> know
> | the mapping in the Doc is not correct. Should be 2 1 0 respectively)
> |
> http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios123/123tcr/123tfr/cfrgt_04.htm#wp1100509
> |
> | So Severity 7 (debugging) will get all.
> |
> |
> | On 5/31/06, Koen Zeilstra <koen@koenzeilstra.com> wrote:
> | >
> | > Hi group,
> | >
> | > If the task asks you to logg warning, alarms and cricital messages to
> a
> | > certain host, which severity level do you need to use?
> | >
> | > {0 | emergencies}. System is unusable
> | > {1 | alerts}.Immediate action needed
> | > {2 | critical}.Critical conditions
> | > {3 | errors}.Error conditions
> | > {4 | warnings}.Warning conditions
> | > {5 | notifications}.Normal but significant conditions
> | > {6 | informational}.Informational messages
> | > {7 | debugging}. Debugging messages
> | >
> | >
> | > warning -> 4
> | > critical -> 2
> | > alarms -> ??????
> | >
> | > Are alarms errors or notifications?
> | >
> | > So that would be either level 4 of level 5??
> | >
> | >
> | > regards,
> | >
> | > Koen
> | >
> | >
> | >
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