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The trap table has the following properties:
• Class - Defines the Severity of the Trap.
• Source - Displays the IP address of the source from where the trap was send.
• Date - Displays the date of receiving the trap.
• Message - By default, contains the VarBind list of the Trap, if any, else it is blank.
To view more details of the received trap, right-click a table entry and choose View Trap Details. Sorting of trap table
columns is done by clicking the corresponding columns.
Trap Details shows more details about the incoming trap. Properties are shown in the following table.
The Trap Viewer can filter incoming trap according to certain criteria called the Parser Criteria. The Trap Viewer shows only
those traps that matches the Trap Criteria. The rest are dropped and is not shown to the user. The Criteria can be
configured using the Trap Parser Editor.
11.8 Trap Parser
11.8.1 Overview
Trap Parser is a tool for creating trap parser files. The Trap Parser Editor is used to configure and parse the trap events.
Since Traps typically contain cryptic information not easily understandable to the users, trap parsers are required to translate
or parse traps into understandable information.
To view the Trap Parser Editor, click ParserEditor in the Trap Viewer window. Refer to the following figure. Use the Next
button to view the options.
TABLE 11-4 Trap Properties
Property Description for Trap Properties
Time Stamp The Time Ticks value is converted into hours, minutes and seconds.
Enterprise This field contains the enterprise OID.
Generic Type This field can have values from 0-6, depending on the type of traps.
Specific Type This field can have values from 1-64K.
Message By default, this field will always contain the Varbinds in the Trap PDU. This can be substituted with
text.
Severity This field shows the severity of the trap. Default is Clear.
Entity The source IP address from which the Trap originated.
RemotePort The port on which the Trap was sent by the originator.
Category Community string.
Domain Source of the originator.
Network The network (192.168.4.2) to which the device that generates the trap belongs.
Node The device that generates the trap.
Source The component or the element in the device that generates the trap.
Time
Received
The time of receiving the trap.
HelpURL Gives more details of the received trap. By default, the URL file name is <generic-type value> -
<specific-type value>.html.