ZyWALL 2 Series User’s Guide

Table 31-1 Menu 22: SNMP Configuration

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

EXAMPLE

 

 

 

Trap

Type the Trap community, which is the password sent with each

Public

Community

trap to the SNMP manager.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Destination

Type the IP address of the station to send your SNMP traps to.

0.0.0.0

 

 

 

When you have completed this menu, press [ENTER] at the prompt “Press [ENTER] to confirm or [ESC] to cancel” to save your configuration or press [ESC] to cancel and go back to the previous screen.

31.2 SNMP Traps

The ZyWALL will send traps to the SNMP manager when any one of the following events occurs:

Table 31-2 SNMP Traps

TRAP #

TRAP NAME

DESCRIPTION

 

 

 

0

coldStart (defined in RFC-1215)

A trap is sent after booting (power on).

 

 

 

1

warmStart (defined in RFC-1215)

A trap is sent after booting (software reboot).

 

 

 

4

authenticationFailure (defined in

A trap is sent to the manager when receiving any SNMP

 

RFC-1215)

get or set requirements with the wrong community

 

 

(password).

 

 

 

6

whyReboot (defined in MIB)

A trap is sent with the reason of restart before rebooting

 

 

when the system is going to restart (warm start).

 

 

 

6a

For intentional reboot:

A trap is sent with the message "System reboot by user!"

 

 

if reboot is done intentionally, (for example, download new

 

 

files, CI command "sys reboot", etc.).

 

 

 

6b

For fatal error:

A trap is sent with the message of the fatal code if the

 

 

system reboots because of fatal errors.

31-2

SNMP Configuration