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SNMP Trap Notifications

Use a SNMP trap notification to update a SNMP Manager about the Open or Closed incident status of the affected applications, servers, or networks.

You can assign a SNMP trap notification to any incident response. The management console sends SNMPv2 trap notifications from the management console computer.

Unlike email notifications, the management console sends a SNMP trap when the management console:

• Opens and closes a server or network incident
• (Optional) A severity change occurs on a server or network incident, for example, from Minor to Major.

To include more than one application, server, or network in the same SNMP trap, assign the same incident response to more than application, server, or network type. If more than one application, server, or network is affected, the SNMP trap includes a URL with the details.

By default, the management console sends SNMP traps using the SNMPv2 community named SuperAgent. The default SNMP profile only applies SNMP trap notifications.

To enable a SNMP manager to understand a SNMP trap notification from the management console, compile the management console MIB into the trap receiver on the SNMP manager. The compiling method varies depending on the SNMP manager.

The management console MIB is not included with the management console distribution. Download the CA Application Delivery Analysis MIB from the CA Support website at http://support.ca.com.

CA Application Delivery Analysis trap notifications use the following abbreviations for performance metrics.

More information:

Interpret SNMP Traps