PrimeAlert® for Cisco Router Version 1.1.1

System Description Section

The System Description section displays the system configuration information and the interface status of the Cisco Router. It contains two tables, System Description and Interface Status. To display them on the console, double click on the System Description icon.

System Description Table

Figure 4 - System Description Table

The System Description table displays the following system properties:

• Host Name - displays the host name of the router being monitored.
• IP Address - displays the IP address of the router being monitored.
• SNMP Port - displays the SNMP port of the router being monitored.
• System Description - displays the complete description of the router, including the full name and version of the hardware, OS software, and networking software.
• System OID - displays the vendor's authoritative identification of the router's network management subsystem.
• System Uptime - displays the time since the router's network management portion was last re-initialized.
• System Contact - displays the contact information of the person responsible for this router.
• System Name - displays the administrative-assigned name for this router.
• System Location - displays the physical location of the router.
• System Services - displays the value indicating the set of services that the router primarily offers.

Interface Status Table

Figure 5 - Interface Status Table

The Interface Status table displays the status of the Cisco Router interfaces. It contains three columns:

• Description - displays the description of the interface, including the user assigned description on the console.
• Administrative - displays the desired status of the interface (e.g., up, down, or testing).
• Operational - displays the current operational state of the interface (e.g., up, down, testing, unknown, or dormant).

This table lists all interfaces defined in the Cisco Router. If the operational state of an interface does not match its administrative state, the module will issue an alarm on its Operational state field for the interface. Table 2 lists all possible alarm conditions.

Table 2 - Alarm Conditions

The module allows the user to selectively monitor the interfaces that the user is interested in. This can be done by changing the interface monitoring state using the Row Editor. The module also allows the user to assign each interface a name in the console. To use the Row Editor to assign/modify the interface name or to change the interface monitoring state:

1. From the Interface Status table, right click on the interface row to be edited to bring up the Pop-up menu.
2. Select the "Edit Row ..." from the Pop-up menu options. This brings up the Row Editor console (Figure 6).



Figure 6 - Row Editor Console

3. To assign/modify the interface name, enter a new name in the Name field.
4. To change the interface monitoring state, access the pull-down menu for the Interface Monitoring field and choose a new state from the following three selections:
   1. Not Monitored - the interface is not monitored by the module;
   2. Status Only - only the interface status is monitored; and
   3. Detailed - all interface details are monitored.
5. After all the changes have been made, click on OK or Apply.

If an interface is not currently being monitored by the module, a brief message, "<not monitored>", is displayed in both the Administrative and Operational status fields. If the details of an interface are being monitored, the first character of the interface description is an asterisk (*). Only those interfaces whose details are being monitored appear in the Interfaces section.

The user assigned interface name is displayed in the Description field, accompanied by the interface description. For instance, if the user assigns the name WIC-1T to the interface Serial0, it is displayed in the Description field as Serial0(WIC-1T).