Cisco Acs 57 User Guide

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Monitoring and Reporting in ACS
Configuring Tabs in the Dashboard
The tab appears with the new name.
Changing the Dashboard Layout
You can change the look and feel of the Dashboard. ACS provides you with nine different in-built layouts. To choose a 
different layout:
1.From the Monitoring and Report Viewer, choose Monitoring and Reports > Dashboard.
The Dashboard page appears.
2.Select the tab whose layout you wish to change.
3.Click the Configure drop-down list at the upper-right corner of the...

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Configuring Tabs in the Dashboard 

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Managing Alarms
The Monitoring feature in ACS generates alarms to notify you of critical system conditions. The monitoring component 
retrieves data from ACS. You can configure thresholds and rules on this data to manage alarms. 
Alarm notifications are displayed in the web interface and you can get a notification of events through e-mail and Syslog 
messages. ACS filters duplicate alarms by default.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Understanding Alarms,...

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Understanding Alarms
This section contains the following topics:
Evaluating Alarm Thresholds, page 2
Notifying Users of Events, page 2
Evaluating Alarm Thresholds
ACS evaluates the threshold conditions based on a schedule. You define these schedules and, while creating a threshold, 
you assign a schedule to it. A schedule consists of one or more continuous or noncontinuous periods of time during the 
week.
For example, you can create a schedule that is active from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00...

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Managing Alarms
Viewing and Editing Alarms in Your Inbox
Viewing and Editing Alarms in Your Inbox
You can view alarms that ACS generates based on a threshold configuration or a rule on a set of data collected from ACS 
servers. Alarms that have met the configured thresholds are sent to you r i nb ox. After you view an alarm, you  can edi t the 
status of the alarm, assign the alarm to an administrator, and add notes to track the event.
To view an alarm in your Inbox, select Monitoring and Reports >...

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Viewing and Editing Alarms in Your Inbox
Table 113 System Alarms in ACS 5.7
AlarmSeverity
Purge Related Alarms
Backup failed. Backup failed before Database Purge. Critical
Backup successful. Backup failed before Database Purge. Info
Database Purge for Daily Tables failed. Exception Details. Critical
Database Purge for Monthly Tables failed. Exception Details. Critical
Database Purge for Yearly Tables failed. Exception Details. Critical
Incremental backup is not configured. Configuring...

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Managing Alarms
Viewing and Editing Alarms in Your Inbox
Incremental Restore Successful. Info
Incremental Restore failed. Reason: Exception Details Critical
On-demand Full Backup failed: Exception Details Critical
Full Database Backup failed: Exception Details. Critical
Full Database Purge Backup failed: Exception Details Critical
Incremental Backup Failed: Exception Details Critical
Log Recovery
Log Message Recovery failed: Exception Details Critical
View Compress
Database rebuild operation has...

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Viewing and Editing Alarms in Your Inbox
Failed to load backup library. Scheduled backup of ACS configuration db failed. Please check 
ADE.log for more details.Critical
Symbol lookup error. Scheduled backup of ACS configuration db failed. Please check ADE.log 
for more details.Critical
Failed to perform ACS backup due to internal error. Please check ADE.log for more details. Critical
System Diagnostics
Secondary node stopped from processing replications. Critical
Secondary node cannot...

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Managing Alarms
Viewing and Editing Alarms in Your Inbox
Note: The Alarm for ACS database exceeding the quota is sent only when the total size of the ACS database exceeds 
the quota. Total size of ACS database = acs*.log + acs.db where acs*.log is the ACS database log file. Both the acs*.log 
and acs.db files are present under /opt/CSCOacs/db. 
Note: ACS cannot be used as a remote syslog server. But, you can use an external server as a syslog server. If you use 
an external server as a syslog...

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Understanding Alarm Schedules
Deleting Alarm Thresholds, page 36
Understanding Alarm Schedules
You can create alarm schedules to specify when a particular alarm threshold is run. You can create, edit, and delete alarm 
schedules. You can create alarm schedules to be run at different times of the day during the course of a seven-day week.
By default, ACS comes with the non-stop alarm schedule. This schedule monitors events 24 hours a day, seven days a 
week.
To view a list of alarm...