Events

The Events page displays all the events occurring in the virtual fabric node, VM Domain, and VM manager. An event is an incident that occur at a specific point in time. Examples of events include:

An Alarm is a response to one or more related events. If an event is considered of high severity, then GigaVUE-FM raises an alarm. An example of alarm could be AWS license expiry.

The alarms broadly fall into the following categories: Critical, Major, Minor, or info.

Click Cloud on the top navigation link. On the left navigation pane, click Events.

Figure 32 Alarms

Table 1: Event Parameters describes the parameters recording for each event. You can also use filters to narrow down the results. Refer to Filter Events for more information.

Table 1: Event Parameters

Controls/ Parameters

Description

Source

The source from where the alarms and events are generated.

Time

The time stamp when the event occurred.

IMPORTANT: Timestamps are shown in the time zone of the client browser’s computer and not the timezone of the node reporting the event. The timestamp is based on the correctly configured clock on the GigaVUE-FM server and converted from UTC to the client computer’s configured timezone.

Scope

The category to which the alarms or events belong. Alarms and events can belong to the following category: Virtual Fabric Node, VM Domain, and VM Manager.

Event Type

The type of event that generated the alarms and events.

Severity

The severity is one of Critical, Major, Minor, or Info.

Info is informational messages. For example, when GigaVUE V Series nodes are installed, such a message is displayed as Info.

Affected Entity Type

The resource type associated with the alarm or event.

Affected Entity

The resource ID of the affected entity type.

Description

The description of the event, which includes any of the possible notifications with additional identifying information where appropriate.

Device IP

The IP address of the device.

Host Name

The host name of the device.