Generic Trap Receiver

About

The Generic Trap Receiver is used to capture and display all the traps for a specific IP address.

Configuration

Connections

SNMP Main Connection

This connector uses a Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) connection and requires the following input during element creation:

SNMP CONNECTION:

• IP address/host: The polling IP of the device.

SNMP Settings:

• Port number: The port of the connection device (default: 161).

Usage

General

To capture traps, specify the IP addresses for which traps should be captured in the Trap IP Sources parameter, using a comma as separator. This page will then display an overview of the captured traps with their information (OID, Source IP, and Bindings) in the Traps table.

If you also want an information event to be created on the DMA every time a trap is received, enable the Information Events parameter.

Via the Auto Clear page button, you can access settings to clean up the Traps table.

Lookup Configuration

On this page, you can use the Lookup Table to have incoming trap OIDs replaced with an alias name. For this purpose, the parameter Lookup Table State must be enabled.

With the Add Raw Value parameter, you can add an OID to the lookup table. The Clear Table button can be used to delete all the raw values from the lookup table, except for some well-known values.

Filter Trap

On this page, you can configure traps to be filtered so that certain traps will not be received. Regular expressions are supported.

Update Trap

This page allows you to set up rules so that specific traps can update traps with a specific OID and alarm reference. From version 1.0.1.17 onwards, basic regular expressions using "*" are supported.

From version 1.0.1.24 onwards, with the Binding Alarm Index, you can set up rules that are a combination of columns. To do so, specify a backslash ("\) followed by a comma-separated list of bindings. Also add a row with the same specific OID to the Filter Trap page.

Heartbeat Trap

This page allows you to set up sending and receiving of heartbeat traps. These traps can be used to test and monitor the DataMiner SNMP forwarding function.

Notes

If you are using this connector with SNMPv3 traps, make sure that the trapPort attribute in the SNMPv3 tag of the DataMiner.xml file is correctly configured. This value should match the port number where SNMPv3 traps are expected to arrive.