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Specifying Trap Managers and Trap Types
Traps indicating status changes are issued by the switch to specified trap
managers. You must specify trap managers so that key events are reported
by this switch to your management station (using network management
platforms such as HP OpenView). You can specify up to five management
stations that will receive authentication failure messages and other trap
messages from the switch.
Command Usage
• If you specify an SNMP Version 3 host, then the “Trap Manager
Community String” is interpreted as an SNMP user name. If you use V3
authentication or encryption options (authNoPriv or authPriv), the user
name must first be defined in the SNMPv3 Users page (page 5-12).
Otherwise, the authentication password and/or privacy password will
not exist, and the switch will not authorize SNMP access for the host.
However, if you specify a V3 host with the no authentication (noAuth)
option, an SNMP user account will be automatically generated, and the
switch will authorize SNMP access for the host.
• Notifications are issued by the switch as trap messages by default. The
recipient of a trap message does not send a response to the switch. Traps
are therefore not as reliable as inform messages, which include a request
for acknowledgement of receipt. Informs can be used to ensure that
critical information is received by the host. However, note that informs
consume more system resources because they must be kept in memory
until a response is received. Informs also add to network traffic. You
should consider these effects when deciding whether to issue
notifications as traps or informs.
To send an inform to a SNMPv2c host, complete these steps:
1. Enable the SNMP agent (page 5-4).
2. Enable trap informs as described in the following pages.
3. Create a view with the required notification messages (page 5-24).
4. Create a group that includes the required notify view (page 5-18).
Summary of Contents for WPCI-G - annexe 1
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Page 26: ...TABLE OF CONTENTS xxvi ...
Page 36: ...GETTING STARTED ...
Page 72: ...MANAGING SYSTEM FILES 2 24 ...
Page 74: ...SWITCH MANAGEMENT ...
Page 90: ...CONFIGURING THE SWITCH 3 16 ...
Page 245: ...SHOWING PORT STATISTICS 8 33 Figure 8 12 Port Statistics ...
Page 252: ...ADDRESS TABLE SETTINGS 9 6 ...
Page 318: ...CLASS OF SERVICE 12 16 ...
Page 330: ...QUALITY OF SERVICE 13 12 ...
Page 348: ...DOMAIN NAME SERVICE 15 8 ...
Page 404: ...IP ROUTING 17 44 ...
Page 406: ...COMMAND LINE INTERFACE ...
Page 608: ...MIRROR PORT COMMANDS 26 4 ...
Page 644: ...SPANNING TREE COMMANDS 29 28 ...
Page 668: ...VLAN COMMANDS 30 24 ...
Page 686: ...CLASS OF SERVICE COMMANDS 31 18 ...
Page 700: ...QUALITY OF SERVICE COMMANDS 32 14 ...
Page 792: ...IP INTERFACE COMMANDS 36 50 ...
Page 818: ...APPENDICES ...
Page 824: ...SOFTWARE SPECIFICATIONS A 6 ...
Page 828: ...TROUBLESHOOTING B 4 ...
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