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Test Traps

When you are setting up CA Common Services and your TCP/IP network to communicate SNMP traps or CA Audit events from CA Auditor to the Unicenter workstation or CA Audit, you might find it useful to quickly generate SNMP traps or CA Audit Events at will to see if they are going through.

To generate test traps

  1. From the primary menu enter: 
    DEBUG

    The Set Debug Flags screen is displayed.

  2. Change the value for the debug flag (16) from 0 to 1 and press Enter.

    A test SNMP trap is generated.

  3. Press F3.

    The primary menu is displayed.

  4. Examine the Unicenter workstation event log for a message similar to: 
    CA Auditor user name from source source on system sysid issued a TEST trap.
  5. Examine the CA Audit client event log for a message similar to: 
    06/21/2006 03:08:55 PM ACF2 USI269ME LOCAL REDDE02 EXAMINE/TSU06028 Examine event 2611
  6. Select the entry.

    Detailed event information about the test trap is displayed.

Important! Use other debug flags at the instruction of CA technical support only.