Cisco Acs 57 User Guide

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Managing Alarms
Understanding Alarm Schedules
3.Click Submit to save the alarm schedule.
The schedule that you create is added to the Schedule list box in the Threshold pages.
Assigning Alarm Schedules to Thresholds
When you create an alarm threshold, you must assign an alarm schedule for the threshold. To assign an alarm schedule:
1.Choose Monitoring and Reports > Alarms > Thresholds.
The Thresholds page appears.
Note: This procedure only describes how to assign a schedule to a threshold. For...

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Creating, Editing, and Duplicating Alarm Thresholds
2.Check the check box the alarm schedule that you want to delete, then click Delete.
The following message appears:
Are you sure you want to delete the selected item(s)?
3.Click Ye s to delete the alarm schedule.
The alarm schedule page appears without the schedule that you deleted.
Creating, Editing, and Duplicating Alarm Thresholds
Use this page to configure thresholds for each alarm category. You can configure up to 100...

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2.Do one of the following:
Click Create.
Check the check box the alarm that you want to duplicate, then click Duplicate.
Click the alarm name that you want to modify, or check the check box the alarm that you want to modify, then click 
Edit.
Check the check box the alarm that you want to enable, then click Enable.
Check the check box the alarm that you want to disable, then click Disable.
3.Modify fields in the Thresholds...

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Configuring Threshold Notifications, page 35
4.Click Submit to save your configuration.
The alarm threshold configuration is saved. The Threshold page appears with the new configuration.
Related Topics
Configuring General Threshold Information, page 16
Configuring Threshold Criteria, page 16
Configuring Threshold Notifications, page 35
Alarm Threshold Messages
A general alarm threshold message would include the following:...

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Table 119 List of Alarm Threshold Messages
Alarm 
Threshold 
CategoryAlarm Header Alarm Name Severity Cause Details
Passed 
Authentication    
Alarm Category: 
CSCOacs_View_Alarm
Syslog ID: 00000001
Number of Fragments: 1
First Fragment: 0 Authentication Critical/
Warning/
InfoThis alarm is 
raised when the 
authentication 
threshold is 
reached. User: user1
Passed authentication 
count: 2
Failed 
Authentication    
Alarm Category:...

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TACACS 
Command 
Authorization    
Alarm Category: 
CSCOacs_View_Alarm
Syslog ID: 0000000128
Number of Fragments: 1
First Fragment: 0TACACS 
AuthorizationCritical/
Warning/
InfoThis alarm is 
caused when 
the TACACS+ 
authorization 
threshold is 
reached.ACS instance: acsserver1
Time:   
  
 
Network Device: device1
User: user1
Privilege: 0
Command: CmdAV = 
show run
Authorization Result: 
Passed 
Identity Group: All 
Groups,...

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ACS Process 
Status    
Alarm Category: 
CSCOacs_View_Alarm
Syslog ID: 0000000001
Number of Fragments: 1
First Fragment: 0Authentication Critical/
Warning/
InfoThis alarm is 
caused when 
the 
authentication 
threshold is 
reached.No process status 
updates have been 
received since the ACS 
View may be down. 
ACS System 
Health    
Alarm Category: 
CSCOacs_View_Alarm
Syslog ID: 0000000004
Number of Fragments: 1
First Fragment: 0...

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Configuring General Threshold Information
To configure general threshold information, fill out the fields in the General Tab of the Thresholds page. Table 120 on 
page 16 describes the fields.
Related Topics
Configuring Threshold Criteria, page 16
Configuring Threshold Notifications, page 35
Configuring Threshold Criteria
ACS 5.7 provides the following threshold categories to define different threshold criteria: Unknown NAD...

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Passed Authentications, page 17
Failed Authentications, page 19
Authentication Inactivity, page 21
TACACS Command Accounting, page 22
TACACS Command Authorization, page 23
ACS Configuration Changes, page 24
ACS System Diagnostics, page 25
ACS Process Status, page 26
ACS System Health, page 27
ACS AAA Health, page 28
RADIUS Sessions, page 29
Unknown NAD, page 30
External DB Unavailable, page 31
RBACL Drops, page 33...

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Modify the fields in the Criteria tab as described in Table 121 on page 18 to create a threshold with the passed 
authentication criteria.
Table 121 Passed Authentications 
Option Description
Passed 
AuthenticationsEnter data according to the following:
greater than count > occurrences |%> in the past time > Minutes | Hours for a object, where:
count values can be the absolute number of occurrences or percent. Valid values are:...