SmartWare Software Configuration Guide

25 • SNMP configuration

 

 

-Message that by default has the object identifier format (sequence of numeric or textual labels on the SNs along a path from the root to the object) of the trap if any, or it is blank.

The details of the traps can be viewed by clicking the Trap Details button or right click the trap in the trap table and select the option View Trap Details. Figure 43 show the screen of such a trap details window.

 

Figure 43. AdventNet Trap Details window of TrapViewer

The various details available in the Trap Details window are listed in table 12:

 

Table 12. Details available in the Trap Details window

 

 

Trap Details

Description

 

 

TimeStamp

The TimeStamp is a 32-bit unsigned value indicating the number of hundredths-of-a-second

 

that have elapsed since the (re)start of the SNMP agent and the sending of the trap. This

 

field shows the value stored in the MIB-II sysUpTime variable converted into hours, minutes

 

and seconds.

 

 

Enterprise

This field shows the OID of the management enterprise that defines the trap message. The

 

value is represented as an OBJECT IDENTIFIER value and has a variable length.

 

 

Generic Type

The Generic type value is categorized and numbered 0 to 6. They are 0-coldStart, 1-warm-

 

Start, 2-linkDown, 3-linkUp, 4-authenticationFailure, 5-egpNeighborLoss. The trap type

 

value 6 is identified as enterprise-specific value. This field shows the value based on the

 

type of trap.

 

 

Specific Type

The specific trap type indicates the specific trap as defined in an enterprise-specific MIB. If

 

the Generic type value is 6 then, this field shows a value greater than 0. If the generic type

 

value is a value other than 6, then the field shows a value 0. This field can have values

 

from 0 to 2147483647.

 

 

Message

This is a text field. By default, this field will always contain the Varbinds in the Trap PDU.

 

This can be substituted with text.

 

 

Severity

This field shows the Severity or the intensity of the trap. They could be 0-All, 1-Critical, 2-

 

Major, 3-Minor, 4-warning, 5-Clear and 6-info.

 

 

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