APC AP7900 manual Event Recipients, Trap Receiver settings, Definition

Switched Rack PDU

USER’S GUIDE

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Event Recipients

Overview

The Web interface and control console both have options that allow you to define up to four trap receivers and up to four e-mail addresses to be used when an event occurs that has SNMP traps or e-mail enabled.

See Event Actions (Web Interface Only).

Trap Receiver settings

To access the Trap Receiver settings that allow you to define which NMSs will receive traps:

•In the Web interface, use the Recipients option in the Events menu.

•In the control console, use the SNMP option in the Network menu.

Item	Definition
Community Name	This setting defines the password (maximum of 15
	characters) used when traps are sent to the NMS
	identified by the Receiver NMS IP/Domain Name setting.
Receiver NMS IP/Domain	Identifies by IP address or domain name the NMS that will
Name	receive traps. If this setting is 0.0.0.0 (the default value),
	traps will not be sent to any NMS.
Generation (Web interface)	Enables (by default) or disables the sending of any traps
Trap Generation (control	to the NMS identified by the Receiver NMS IP/Domain
	Name setting.
console)
Authentication Traps	Enables or disables the sending of authentication traps to
	the NMS identified by the Receiver NMS IP/Domain
	Name setting.

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