Group Policies
Alert Configuration Policies
Update. The new information appears in the box above. Click on OK to return to the main Configuration Policies page, then click on Apply Policies to save your changes.
Clicking on Cancel discards all your changes.
Checking Firmware Versions
When TopTools discovers a device in your network, the firmware version of the device is retrieved and compared against a list to determine if there is a newer firmware version available. If a newer firmware version is available, a
message is entered in the Alerts page (click on the Alerts button in the navigation frame). See Downloading Firmware for instructions on
downloading the newer firmware.
Alert Configuration Policies
To configure group policies for alert notification and fault sensitivity, click on the Alerts button in the Configuration Policies main page. The Alert Policies page for that group displays.
Use the Trap Receivers list box to specify the management stations that can capture traps for
Enter the IP addresses of the hosts that should receive traps. The maximum number of additional trap receivers that you can add is nine. The HP TopTools management station is a trap receiver by default.
See SNMP Configuration for information about setting traps.
The device will automatically send traps to the trap receivers entered in the trap receivers list box. You can configure actions to take when traps occur, such as paging a network administrator, by using the Configure Actions on Events feature listed in the Alerts button in the HP TopTools home page.
Traps will be sent for all standard SNMP events, as well as some additional fixed events. The fixed events for hubs and switches include:
■coldStart: The device reinitialized itself and its configuration may have changed.
■warmStart: The device reinitialized itself but its configuration is not changed.
■linkDown: Communication was lost on a device interface.
■linkUp: Communication was regained on a device interface.
■authorizationFailure: The device received an SNMP packet that was not authenticated.
■entConfigChange: A change, such as the addition of a card, was made to the device.
■hpicFaultfinderTrap: A possible error condition was detected by the fault finder.
