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Monitoring Trap and Event Messages

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Selecting Trap Messages

You can conﬁgure the SNMP agent to send trap messages to the Trap Monitor

based on the following criteria:

• By category (all, generic, speciﬁc, none)

The category determines the type of the trap messages you want to collect.

• By protocol entity

The protocol entity instructs the agent to send trap messages for a speciﬁc

protocol. You must use this criterion together with the event severity level.

• By event severity level

The event severity level instructs the agent to send trap messages if an event

with the speciﬁed severity level appears in the event log. You must use this

criterion together with the protocol entity.

You can also select speciﬁc trap messages that the SNMP agent always sends or

never sends, regardless of other criteria you have set. These are trap exceptions,

and they are speciﬁed by their entity and event code.

Specifying Trap Messages by Category

You can conﬁgure the SNMP agent to send the following trap messages:

• All traps

• Generic traps

• Speciﬁc traps

• None

To specify the types of messages sent by the agent:

1. In the Conﬁguration Manager window, choose Protocols > IP > SNMP >

Communities.

The SNMP Community List window opens (refer to Figure

7-2).

2. Choose Community > Managers.

The SNMP Manager List window opens (refer to Figure

7-3).

3. Choose Manager > Edit Manager.

The Trap Port and Trap Types window opens (Figure

7-5).