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Forwarding Alerts
You may want to consolidate alerts from multiple management stations to one management station. For example, you have
management stations in multiple locations and you want to view status and take action from one central location. For information
about the behavior of forwarded alerts, see
Forwarding Alerts Use Case. To create alert forwards:
1. Select Manage → Alerts → Common Tasks → New Alert Trap Forward Action.
2. In Name and Description, provide Trap Forward name and description and then click Next.
3. In Trap Forwarding Configuration, provide destination host name or IP address, provide community information, to send a test
trap to the destination management station, click Test Action. To forward the trap in the same format to the configured
destination, click Forward Trap in Original Format and click Next.
4. In Severity Association, assign the alert severity to which you want to associate this trap forwarding alert and then click Next.
5. In Categories and Sources Association, assign the alert categories source to which you want to associate this trap forwarding
alert and then click Next.
6. In Device Association, assign the device or device groups to which you want to associate this trap forwarding alert and then
click Next.
7. By default the Trap Forward Action is always active. To limit activity, in Date Time Association, enter a date range, time range,
or days, and then click Next.
8. In Summary, review inputs and click Finish.
The severity status for any trap is set to normal and for a successful alert action, combination of severity, category, and device
has to confer with the selections in the preceding steps.
Forwarding Alerts Use Case Scenarios
This section describes scenarios about forwarding alerts using the SNMP v1 and SNMP v2 protocols. The scenarios consists of the
following components:
• Managed node with an SNMP v1 agent, referred to as MNv1
• Managed node with an SNMP v2/v2c agent, referred to as MNv2
• Managed station 1 with OpenManage Essentials, referred to as MS1
• Managed station 2 with OpenManage Essentials, referred to as MS2
• Managed station 3 with a third-party software, referred to as MS3
Scenario 1 — Forwarding Alerts in the Original Format Using SNMP v1 Protocol
In this scenario, SNMP v1 alerts are sent from MNv1 to MS1 and then forwarded from MS1 to MS2. If you try to retrieve the remote
host of the forwarded alert, it displays the name of MNv1 as the alert originates from MNv1. MNv1 is displayed because the SNMP
v1 alert standards allow you to set the agent name in the SNMP v1 alert.
Scenario 2 — Forwarding Alerts in the Original Format Using SNMP v2/v2c Protocol
In this scenario, SNMP v2 alerts are sent from MNv2 to MS1 and then forwarded from MS1 to MS3. If you try to retrieve the
remote host of the forwarded alert from MS3, it is displayed as MS1
Since there are no fields in an SNMP v2 alert to specify the agent name, the host which sends the alert is assumed as the agent.
When an SNMP v2 alert is forwarded from MS1 to MS3, MS1 is considered as the source of problem. To resolve this issue, while
forwarding SNMP v2 or v2c alerts, a varbind is added with OID as .1.3.6.1.6.3.18.1.3.0 with the variable value as Agent Address. This
has been set based on the standard OID specified in RFC2576-MIB. When you try to retrieve the Agent Address from MS3, it is
displayed as MNv2
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