Owner's Manual

Alarms 811
Testing Receipt of Alarms
If you want to test whether your system receives traps, you can test it with a trap generating
application like Mimic or TrapGen. If you plan to test with artificially generated traps, first use the
Discovery Wizard (see Discovery on page 187) to discover the device you want to initiate these
traps (otherwise traps appear as “unknown”).
TrapGen is free from www.ncomtech.com. Here is an example command line for an installation of
Tra pG en:
trapgen -d [destination IP]:[port] -i [initiator’s IP] -g [trap type] -s
[specific type]
trapgen -d 192.168.0.95:162 -i 192.168.1.156 -g 0 -s 0
Use trapgen -h to see all available commands.
CAUTION:
If you install a trap viewer, like the free one offered by Network Computing Technologies (they offer
TrapGen), other applications competing for the trap listening port (162) do not allow this application to
correctly receive traps. TrapGen is not supported as part of this application. Install and use it at your own
risk.