Table 53: Alarm Terms and Denions
(Connued)
Term Denion
Alarm
severity
levels
Seriousness of the alarm. The level of severity can be either major (red) or minor (yellow).
• Major (red)—Indicates a crical situaon on the device that has resulted from one of the
following condions.
A red alarm condion requires immediate acon.
• One or more hardware components have failed.
• One or more hardware components have exceeded temperature thresholds.
•
An alarm condion congured on an interface has triggered a crical warning.
•
Minor (yellow or amber)—Indicates a noncrical condion on the device that, if le ignored or
unaddressed, might cause an interrupon in service or degradaon in performance.
A yellow alarm condion requires monitoring or maintenance. For example, a missing rescue
conguraon generates a yellow system alarm.
Alarm types Alarms include the following types:
• Chassis alarm—Predened alarm triggered by a physical condion on the device such as a
power supply failure or excessive component temperature.
• Interface alarm—Alarm you congure to alert you when an interface link is down. Applies to
ethernet, fibre-channel, and management-ethernet interfaces. You can congure a red (major) or
yellow (minor) alarm for the link-down condion, or you can have the condion ignored.
• System alarm—Predened alarm that might be triggered by a missing rescue conguraon,
failure to install a license for a licensed soware feature, or high disk usage.
SEE ALSO
show chassis alarms
show system alarms
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