Sniffer® Portable Professional User's Guide - NetScout

Chapter 12
Setting Alarm Severity Levels
260 Sniffer Portable Professional
You can assign a severity level to both Monitor and Expert alarms
(symptoms and diagnoses).
Severities for Monitor Alarms on page 260
Logging and Severities for Expert Alarms on page 262
IMPORTANT: Alarms (both Monitor and Expert) are only logged in the
Monitor > Alarm Log if the Enable Alarm option is checked in the
Tools > Options > Alarm tab. This option is enabled by default. See
Setting Up Logging for the Local Alarm Log on page 259 for details.
Severities for Monitor Alarms
By default, Sniffer Portable Professional defines the alarm event types
listed in the table below and assigns each one a severity level. You can
change the default severity level assigned to each event to suit your
specific network operating environment. Table 12-1 lists the default
severity levels.
Table 12-1. Default Severity Levels
Alarm Event Severity Level
Threshold: Over upper limit Critical
Address: Duplicate IP address Critical
Address: Duplicate data in address book Inform
To change an alarm severity level, select Options from the Tools menu,
then click the Alarm tab. Click the Define Severity button to open the
Define Severity dialog box (Figure 12-3). Click the Severity cell for an
alarm to display a list of severity-level options. Select the one you want
to use and click OK.