Users Guide

Field Description
display all the traps dened for that category in the Edit Trap(s)
grid. You can also navigate and select a particular trap from the
category.
Edit Traps
Name Displays the trap name.
Category Name Displays the category name of the trap.
Severity Displays the severity of the trap.
Format String Displays the message string that is displayed in the
OpenManage Essentials alert logs.
Enterprise OID Displays the enterprise OID (SNMP OID prex) of the event
source that you want to monitor.
Description Displays the trap description.
Generic Trap ID Displays the generic trap ID of the SNMP trap that you want to
monitor from the required event source.
Specic Trap ID Displays the specic trap ID of the SNMP trap that you want to
monitor from the required event source.
Save Click to save the changes to the OpenManage Essentials
database.
Alert Source
Each Alert Category contains alert sources. Click an alert category to view alert sources. Expand a category to view the list of alert
sources, and select an alert source.
Table 206. Alert Source
Field Description
Name The name of the new alert source, for example, myFanAlert.
Type The protocol information.
Catalog Provides the catalog information.
Severity Species the severity assigned to the alert that is triggered if
the alert source generates the specied SNMP trap.
Format string Provides the message string that appears in the Alert Logs if the
alert source generates an alert of sucient severity to trigger
the alert. You can use formatting commands to specify parts of
the message string. For SNMP, the valid formatting commands
are:
$n = system name
$d = date
$t = time
$s = severity
$e = enterprise object identier (OID)
$sp = specic trap OID
$g = generic trap OID
$1 - $# = varbind values
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