AT-GS950/16PS Switch Web Interface User’s Guide
Trap Receiver Attributes
A trap is a message sent by the agent to one or more managers to indicate the occurrence of a particular event on the device. There are numerous events that can trigger a trap. For instance, when the switch reboots or when the Spanning Tree Root Bridge changes. You use traps to monitor activities on the switch.
Trap receivers are the typically SNMP management stations, that you want to receive the traps sent by the switch. You specify a trap receiver by its IP address which is assigned to a specific community string.
The community string name is included when the switch sends a trap. The management station may use the community string as a verification of the trap source.
If you are not interested in having SNMP stations receive traps, then you do not need to enter any IP addresses of trap receivers.
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