TRAP attributes

Use the TRAP attributes to monitor received SNMP traps.

The TRAP attributes are available for the SNMP Data Provider.


Alert Name The trap name as specified in the definition in the trap configuration file. A valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of 64 characters.

Category The trap category as specified in the definition in the trap configuration file. A valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of 32 characters.

Description The trap description specified in the trap configuration file. The maximum description length is 256 characters. A valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of 256 characters.

Enterprise Name The trap Enterprise name as specified in trap configuration file and looked up through the trap Object Identifier. A valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of 64 characters.

Generic Trap The generic trap number extracted from the received trap. A valid entry is an integer of up to two digits. Possible values are:

0 = ColdStart

1 = WarmStart

2 = LinkDown

3 = LinkUp

4 = Authentication Failure

5 = EGPNeighborLoss

Object ID The SNMP object identifier that uniquely identifies the trap in the Management Information Base. The object ID is extracted from the received trap. A valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of 512 characters.

Severity The trap severity as specified in the definition in the trap configuration file. A valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of 32 characters.

Source Name The host name or IP address of the SNMP agent that sent the trap. A valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of 64 characters.

Source Status The status of the agent that originated the trap after sending it as specified in the trap definition in the trap configuration file. A valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of 32 characters.

Source Type The type of the agent that originated the trap as specified in the trap definition in the trap configuration file. A valid entry is an alphanumeric text string, with a maximum length of 32 characters.

Specific Trap The enterprise-specific trap number extracted from the received trap. Applies only when Generic Trap = 6. A valid entry is an integer of up to four digits.

Time Stamp A timestamp for the SNMP trap received by SNMP-MANAGER. The format is CYYMMDDHHMMSSmmm (as in 1020315064501000 for 03/15/02 06:45:01) where:

C = Century (1 for 21st)

Y = Year

M = Month

D = Day

H = Hour

M = Minute

S = Second

m = millisecond

Value List The variable binding (VarBind) data received in the trap protocol data unit. The VarBind elements are converted to their IBM Tivoli Monitoring attribute names if the corresponding MIB metafile is loaded. Otherwise they are shown as Object ID. The string is constructed as:

{oid[type] = value} {oid[type] = value}...

where oid defines the object identifier of the MIB variable, type is the ASN.1 type, and value is the variable value. Each triplet is surrounded by { }.

Note: If an SNMP metafile contains variable names for the variables in the received trap, the variable names are used instead of the raw OIDs. In this case, the Value List format is:

[variableName = value}...

A valid entry is an alphanumeric or Unicode text string, with a maximum length of 1024 characters.