Table 53: Alarm Terms and Definitions
(Continued)
Term
Definition
Alarm
severity
levels
Seriousness of the alarm. The level of severity can be either major (red) or minor (yellow).
•
Major (red)—Indicates a critical situation on the device that has resulted from one of the
following conditions.
A red alarm condition requires immediate action.
•
One or more hardware components have failed.
•
One or more hardware components have exceeded temperature thresholds.
•
An alarm condition configured on an interface has triggered a critical warning.
•
Minor (yellow or amber)—Indicates a noncritical condition on the device that, if left ignored or
unaddressed, might cause an interruption in service or degradation in performance.
A yellow alarm condition requires monitoring or maintenance. For example, a missing rescue
configuration generates a yellow system alarm.
Alarm types
Alarms include the following types:
•
Chassis alarm—Predefined alarm triggered by a physical condition on the device such as a
power supply failure or excessive component temperature.
•
Interface alarm—Alarm you configure to alert you when an interface link is down. Applies to
ethernet
,
fibre-channel
, and
management-ethernet
interfaces. You can configure a red (major) or
yellow (minor) alarm for the link-down condition, or you can have the condition ignored.
•
System alarm—Predefined alarm that might be triggered by a missing rescue configuration,
failure to install a license for a licensed software feature, or high disk usage.
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