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Name Description and Conditions
Device Event This trigger is used for alerting based on SNMP traps and syslog messages, which are
displayed in System > Syslogs & Traps, APs/Devices > Monitor for affected devices,
and in Clients > Client Detail. The conditions supported are:
l Event Contents (case insensitive substring matches on message content)
l Event Type (syslog or trap)
l Syslog Severity: Emergency, Alert, Critical, Bug, Error, Warning, Notice, or Info
l Syslog Category
l SNMP Trap Category: Hardware, IDS, Client Security, AP Security, AP Status,
Software, or Rogue Detection
l Syslog Category
NOTE: During the process of upgrading or installation for non-Master Console/Failover
W-AirWaves, W-AirWave creates two default trigger definitions for Device Events:
l SNMP Trap Category of Hardware or Software
l Event Type is Syslog and Syslog Severity >= Critical For help creating these
triggers, see "Triggers for hardware monitoring" on page 224
Device Uplink
Status
This trigger deploys whenever a RAP’s active uplink changes from Ethernet to USB or
vice versa. The corresponding events are captured in a RAP’s APs/Devices > Monitor
page.
Table 110: Device Triggers (Continued)
Triggers for hardware monitoring
W-AirWave provides triggers that alert you to hardware failures to your APs, Dell switches, and hardware
components.
To create a trigger for device hardware failures:
1. Navigate to the System > Triggers page, then create trigger as a device event.
2. Select the event severity: None, Minor, Major, or Fatal.
3. Add the trigger condition in W-AirWave with the trigger conditions shown in Figure 120.
Figure 120:Example Trigger Conditions
4. Configure the switch for sending syslog messages:
HP-Switch-5406Rzl2(config)# logging facility syslog
HP-Switch-5406Rzl2(config)# logging <Airwave _IP>
The hardware triggers display in the Triggers table, as shown in Figure 121.
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