The Novell® ZENworks® Server Management Alarm Management System alerts you to important events like the SNMP traps, threshold alarms, network discovery events, and ping and connectivity testing faults occurring on your network. This lets you pro-actively resolve network problems and receive updates on events occurring on your network.
Alarm icons are anchored to objects displayed in Novell ConsoleOne®. The icons change color to depict the level of severity, notifying you of potential problems. The events are reported in the Active Alarm view, and each event is categorized and displayed with a corresponding alarm icon.
The Alarm Management System will process any device on the network that supports SNMP-standard trap notification. For example, for all Novell NetWare® servers on which the Management Agent for NetWare is installed, notifications of server breakdowns, overloads, and configuration changes are sent to the management server for processing and then made available for viewing at a Novell ZENworks Server Management Novell ConsoleOne.
You can enable and disable alarms and set alarm thresholds on baseline statistics for segments and servers (for example, segment alarms for utilization and the total number of packets per second), so that an alarm is generated when the threshold for a statistic is reached. You can also set actions to be performed when an alarm or an event occurs. The actions assigned to an alarm or event are specified in the alarm disposition.
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