Opening a BGP Notification Properties dialog box

To obtain detailed information about an individual BGP notification, you can use any of the following common methods to open the Notification Properties dialog box:

• Double-click a BGP notification in the Notification Log Console.

• Select a BGP notification in the Notification Log Console and then click the Show Notification Properties toolbar button.

• Right-click a selected BGP notification and then select Properties in the pop-up menu.

• Double-click a BGP map icon (in the Map Console) affected by active events.

  Notification Properties dialog box that shows a BGP problemshows a Notification Properties dialog box for a BGPSession Down problem that is diagnosed by Network Protocol Manager for BGP.

  Figure 1. Notification Properties dialog box that shows a BGP problem

  

  In Notification Properties dialog box that shows a BGP problem, attribute IsRoot set to Yes indicates that BGPSession Down is deemed a root-cause problem by the Global Manager, and attribute IsProblem set to Yes indicates that BGPSession Down is deemed a root-cause problem by Network Protocol Manager for BGP. IsRoot and IsProblem attribute values for a notificationdescribes what the IsRoot and IsProblem attribute values mean.

Table 1. IsRoot and IsProblem attribute values for a notification

IsRoot value 1	IsProblem value 2	Meaning
1**Determined by the Global Manager. 2**Determined by the underlying Domain Manager that created the notification.
Yes		After correlating this notification with notifications received from other underlying Domain Managers, the Global Managerhas determined that this notification is a root-cause problem.
No		After correlating this notification with notifications received from other underlying Domain Managers, the Global Managerhas determined that this notification is not a root-cause problem.
	Yes	The underlying Domain Manager that created this notification has marked this notification as a root-cause problem.
	No	The underlying Domain Manager that created this notification has marked this notification as an event.

By default, the IsRoot and IsProblem attributes columns do not appear in the Notification Log Console. To add the IsRoot attribute column, right-click an attribute column heading (for example, Class) in the Notification Log Console, select Insert Column in the pop-up menu, and then select IsRoot in the submenu; the IsRoot column is inserted to the left of the selected column. Repeat this procedure to add the IsProblem attribute column.