Table 30: Alarm Output Fields
ValuesField
Date and time when the failure was detected.Alarm time
Alarm severity—either major or minor.Class
Brief synopsis of the alarm.Description
Related
Documentation
Understanding Alarm Types and Severity Classes on ACX Series Routers on page 125•
• Monitoring System Log Messages on page 124
Understanding Alarm Types and Severity Classes on ACX Series Routers
Before monitoring alarms on the router, become familiar with the terms defined in
Table 31 on page 125.
Table 31: Alarm Terms
DefinitionTerm
Signal alerting you to conditions that might prevent normal operation.
On a router, the alarm signal is the red system LED lit on the front of
the chassis.
Alarm
Failure event that triggers an alarm.Alarm condition
Seriousness of the alarm. The level of severity can be either major
(steady red) or minor (blinking red).
Alarm severity
Predefined alarm triggered by a physical condition on the router, such
as a power failure, excessive component temperature, or media failure.
Chassis alarm
Predefined alarm triggered by a missing rescue configuration or failure
to install a license for a licensed software feature.
System alarm
Alarm Types
The router supports these alarms:
•
Chassis alarms indicate a failure on the router or one of its components. Chassis alarms
are preset and cannot be modified.
•
System alarms indicate a missing rescue configuration. System alarms are preset and
cannot be modified, although you can configure them to appear automatically in the
J-Web interface display or CLI display.
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