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Specifying Trap Managers and Trap Types
Traps indicating status changes are issued by the switch to specified trap
managers. You must specify trap managers so that key events are reported
by this switch to your management station (using network management
platforms such as HP OpenView). You can specify up to five management
stations that will receive authentication failure messages and other trap
messages from the switch.
Command Attributes
•Trap Manager Capability – This switch supports up to five trap
managers.
•Trap Manager IP Address – Internet address of the host (the
targeted recipient).
•Trap Manager Community String – Community string sent with the
notification operation. (Range: 1-32 characters, case sensitive)
•Trap Version – Specifies whether to send notifications as SNMP v1
or v2c traps.
•Enable Authentication Traps – Issues a trap message whenever an
invalid community string is submitted during the SNMP access
authentication process.
•Enable Link-up and Link-down Traps – Issues a trap message
whenever a port link is established or broken. (Default: Enabled)
Web – Click SNMP, Configuration. Fill in the IP address and community
string for each trap manager that will receive these messages, specify the
SNMP version, mark the trap types required, and then click Add.