Cryptic Messages from DFM...

[jasonhumes]

I have very little experience with CiscoWorks...But I've got it set up to monitor a bunch of cisco switchs and a cisco 6509. I managed to get CiscoWorks to send pages but the messages it sends are odd. "Performance Exception accross all ports in a vlan" "Operation Exception" etc. Is there any way to change these to better reflect the actual condition of the equipment. For example, recently power was flickering at a site and the switch there was rebooting alot, Cisco Works saw this and reported that the was an "Operational Exception, ...Not functioning properly" but I would like to see more informative messages. Any good guide to configuring DFM? Thanks very much.

[rmushtaq]

Is this DFM 1.2 with IDU 1.2.3 installed?. http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/rtrmgmt/cw2000/dfm/dfm1_2/user_gd/faults.htm gives details on what faults and exceptions are reported by DFM and details of each. Also DFM FAQs:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/rtrmgmt/cw2000/dfm/dfm_faq.htm

[jboake]

Regardless of the version, you are pretty limited to what you can change. If you are interested in being able to redefine and create your own Codebook correlation, have a look at SMARTS. They are the ones who wrote DFM and have their own product on the market. It's a little pricy, around 300k for a decent installation.