Benefits and Limitations
Benefits
The ExtremeXOS SNMP Notification Log feature
has the following benefits:
- Ability to create multiple SNMP notification logs.
- Ability to restrict SNMP notifications that are added to a log.
- Ability to age log entries.
- Ability to limit the maximum number of entries in a log.
- Ability to control the feature through both CLI and SNMP.
Limitations
- No capability to query log entries by time duration (for example, list log entries from the last hour).
- The notification log name “default” is reserved to represent the default log in CLI. You cannot create a notification log with the name "default".
- Aging out of entries may occur sooner, or later, than the global age out period that you specify if the current time of the NE is changed.
- Notification log statistics (but not entries) are lost on a restart of the SNMP Master process.
- Notification log statistics (but not entries) are lost on failover.
- Notification log entries and statistics are lost if the NE is rebooted.