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Events
An event is any significant occurrence within or affecting the VPN 3000 Concentrator such as an alarm,
trap, error condition, network problem, task completion, threshold breach, or status change. The VPN
Concentrator records events in an event log, which is stored in nonvolatile memory. You can also specify
that certain events trigger a console message, a UNIX syslog record, an email message, or an SNMP
management system trap.
Event attributes include class and severity level.
Event class
Event class denotes the source of the event and refers to a specific hardware or software subsystem
within the VPN Concentrator. Table 10-1 describes the event classes.
Table 10-1: VPN Concentrator event classes
Class name Class description (event source)
(*Cisco-specific event class)
AUTH
Authentication*
AUTHDBG
Authentication debugging*
AUTHDECODE
Authentication protocol decoding*
BKPLN
WAN backplane driver*
CAPI
Cryptography subsystem*
CERT
Digital certificates subsystem
CONFIG
Configuration subsystem*
DHCP
DHCP subsystem
DHCPDBG
DHCP debugging*
DHCPDECODE
DHCP decoding*
DM
Data Movement subsystem*
DNS
DNS subsystem
