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IMS supplies a means of monitoring the occurrence of SNMP traps, which are system notifications triggered by a wide range of events, including the following special conditions:
For more details of SNMP traps, see ``Traps''.
A log of received trap notifications can be viewed by selecting the
Main screen Alarms
Trap Alarm Log
menu option.
At the top of the resulting screen are buttons (Log now and
Log after next reboot) that permit the activation and deactivation
of trap logging. Clicking on the first causes trap logging to take immediate
effect: the second delays logging until after the next system reboot.
The following is a typical log file entry:
Community: public. Enterprise: experimental.1.42.42.42.42. Agent-addr: 128.114.144.103. Authentication failure trap. Time Ticks: 0. Name: iso.1.1.1 Value: NULLA scroll bar is supplied for manually browsing through the trap entries in the log file, while specific entries may be found using the search facility, which is equipped with Next and Previous buttons.
Whenever IMS detects a ``down'' node on the local subnet, that
is, the node has failed to react to
ping(1Mtcp),
a warning mail is sent to the user. This mail identifies the node, and
gives the date and time of the failure. This default behavior can be
modified, however, using the
Main screen Alarms
Node Status Alarm
menu option.
A screen is displayed that contains some explanatory text and the default action to be taken, as follows:
echo $status | mailx -s "Intranet Manager:$node is down" userOverwriting this prompt line causes IMS to execute the given command whenever a node is found to be down. The command will be executed exactly once.