Sending Traps - Hirschmann MS30, Power MICE, MACH 4000, OCTOPUS User Manual

Operation Diagnostics

9.1 Sending traps

If unusual events occur during normal operation of the Switch, they are
reported immediately to the management station. This is done by means of
so-called traps - alarm messages - that bypass the polling procedure
("Polling" means querying the data stations at regular intervals). Traps make
it possible to react quickly to critical situations.
Examples of such events are:
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a hardware reset
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changing the basic device configuration
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segmentation of a port
Traps can be sent to various hosts to increase the transmission reliability for
the messages. A trap message consists of a packet that is not acknowl-
edged.
The Switch sends traps to those hosts that are entered in the trap destination
table. The trap destination table can be configured with the management sta-
tion via SNMP.
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