86CHAPTER 10: VIEWING EVENTS
Forwarding Events By selecting an event in the Event Generation dialog box, you can choose
as SNMP Traps to forward the event as an SNMP trap to your own Open Management Platform (for example, HP OpenView or SunNet Manager).
The Event Generation dialog box allows you to configure the following:
■The severity of events generated by event rules. This allows you to assign different severities to various rules, so that event rules which you consider to be unimportant generate events of “Information” level severity (the least severe), while event rules which you consider to be important generate events of higher severity.
■You can choose to enable/disable events generated by rules and
Configuring Traffix Manager to Forward Events as SNMP Traps
Select an event in the the Event Generation dialog box to forward as an SNMP trap to your own Open Management Platform (OMP). You can enter the trap destination as an IP address or DNS name. The generated event appears in the event viewer for the OMP.
Integrating Traffix This section gives an example of how to integrate Traffix Manager SNMP Manager SNMP Traps Traps forwarded from the Event List with HP OpenView. At the time of
with HP OpenView writing, the Traffix Manager Event forwarding feature uses the 3Com RMON Event Trigger SNMP Trap PDU (Specific ID 82).
Configuring an Open Management Platform (OMP)
This example refers to HP OpenView Network Node Manager 6.0 for Windows NT. Alarms are generated when Network Node Manager receives events.
1To create a new Alarm Category for Traffix Manager events, follow these steps:
a Click Event Configuration in the Options menu to open the Event Configuration dialog box.
b Click Alarm Categories from the Edit menu. c Enter Traffix Manager in the Name field.
