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Configuring for Network Management Applications
Trap Receivers and Authentication Traps
Monitoring and Managing
the Switch
Trap Receivers and Authentication Traps
Trap Features
A trap receiver is a management station designated by the switch to receive
SNMP traps sent from the switch. An authentication trap is a specialized
SNMP trap sent to trap receivers when an unauthorized management station
tries to access the switch.
Note Fixed or “Well-Known” Traps: The SMC6624M switch automatically sends
fixed traps (such as “coldStart,” “warmStart,” “linkDown,” and “linkUp”) to
trap receivers using a public community name. These traps cannot be redi-
rected to other communities. Thus, if you change or delete the default public
community name, these traps will be lost.
Thresholds: The switch automatically sends all messages resulting from
thresholds to the network management station(s) that set the thresholds,
regardless of the trap receiver configuration.
In the default configuration, there are no trap receivers configured, and the
authentication trap feature is disabled. From the CLI you can configure up to
ten SNMP trap receivers to receive SNMP traps from the switch. The switch
can be configured to also send event log messages as traps if the following
opotions are used with the snmp-server host command:
Feature Default Menu CLI Web
snmp-server host (trap receiver) public — page 8-11 —
snmp-server enable (authentication trap) none — page 8-11 —
Event Level Description
None (default) Send no log messages.
All Send all log messages.
Not INFO Send the log messages that are not information-only.
Critical Send critical-level log messages.
Debug Reserved for SMC-internal use.