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The ZENworks for Servers (ZfS) Alarm Management System (AMS) alerts you of important events occurring on your network. Events include SNMP traps, threshold alarms, network discovery events, and ping and connectivity testing faults. This lets you proactively resolve network problems and stay up-to-date on network events occurring throughout your network.
Events are reported in the Active Alarm view, and alarm icons are anchored to objects displayed in the management console. Each event is categorized and displayed with a corresponding alarm icon when an event occurs. Alarm icons change color to depict the level of severity, keeping you updated with real-time notification of potential problems.
Any device on the network that supports SNMP-standard trap notification can be processed by the AMS. For example, for all NetWare® servers on which the management agent for NetWare is installed, all notifications of server breakdowns, overloads, and configuration changes are sent to the management server for processing and then made available for viewing at a ZfS management console.
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 when the threshold for a statistic is reached, an alarm is generated. You can also set actions to be performed when an alarm or event occurs. The actions assigned to an alarm or event are specified in the alarm disposition.
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