APC Switched Rack Power Distribution Unit (PDU) manual Event Recipients, Trap receiver settings

USER’S GUIDE switched rack pdu

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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 the SNMP traps or e-mail enabled.

See Event Actions (Web Interface Only)

Trap receiver settings

To define which NMSs will receive traps:

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

•In the control console, use the SNMP option in the Network menu. Choose one of the trap receivers to modify, or select Settings and enable SNMP access for all trap receivers.

Item	Definition
	This setting defines the password (maximum of 15
Community Name	characters) used when traps are sent to the NMS
	identified by the Receiver NMS IP setting.
	Identifies by IP address the NMS that will receive traps.
Receiver NMS IP	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 setting.
console)
Authentication Traps	Enables or disables the sending of authentication traps
	to the NMS identified by the Receiver NMS IP setting.

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