HP Network Direr Software Products manual Trap Decode Tab

348CHAPTER 8: THE EVENT LOG

length of time that the history is maintained for may be configured via the Tools > Options dialog box. See “Configuring the Storage of Monitoring History for Events” on page 360.

Trap Decode Tab

The Trap Decode tab is only visible when you are viewing details for an SNMP trap-based event, and provides full details of the raw contents of the SNMP trap that the event was generated from:

Figure 164 Trap Decode Tab

The tree within this tab allows you to view the individual varbinds that were contained within the SNMP trap, and the three options in the Decode section at the bottom left allow you to select differing levels of decode:

Numerical decode: Object identifiers are shown using their numerical values.

For example:

1.3.6.1.4.1.43.10.22.2.1.4.1.7.0.4.11

Full name decode: 3Com Network Director translates the object identifiers from their numerical values to their text equivalents as far as it