Eaton Electrical SC200 manual Setting Up Snmp Traps, Parameter Configuration Guidelines

Communications

Setting Up SNMP Traps

The SM45 supervisory module can be configured to send alarms as SNMP traps to up to eight different SNMP trap receivers.

To send alarms as SNMP traps, first set up Ethernet communications (see page 6-3for details), and then use DCTools to set up SNMP traps as follows:

1From the DCTools System Summary (Home) screen, click the Configuration and then Communications hotlink to display the Communications view.

2Click the button to the left of SNMP to display the SNMP configuration view.

3Do not change the default settings of SNMP Read Community (public) and SNMP Write Community (private), unless requested by the network administrator.

4Configure Trap Repeat and Trap Repeat Rate as appropriate.

5For each receiver, configure the following parameters using the configuration guidelines.

Parameter	Configuration Guidelines
Name	Enter the name of the SNMP trap receiver (20 characters
	maximum).
Level	SNMP Trap Level – controls reporting of specific events for each
	receiver as follows:
	• Select All Events And Alarms to receive events and urgent
	and non-urgent alarms. (Typically events are status
	messages such as Equalize Active.)
	• Select Urgent And Non Urgent Alarms to receive both
	urgent and non-urgent alarm notifications.
	• Select Urgent Alarms Only to receive only urgent alarm
	notifications.
	• Select Disabled to temporarily disable notifications to the
	receiver.
IP Address	Enter the IP address of the trap receiver that has been assigned
	by the network administrator.
Port	Enter the port number of the trap receiver that has been
	assigned by the network administrator.
Trap Community	A form of password. Use public, unless the network
	administrator has assigned a new password.
Mode	Select:
	• Normal Traps for sending traps to any network
	management system, except PowerManagerII
	• Acknowledged Summary Trap for sending traps to
	PowerManagerII only

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