Sending Traps - Hirschmann MACH 4000 User Manual

Operation diagnosis

9.1 Sending traps

If unusual events occur during normal operation of the Switch, they are re-
ported immediately to the management station. This is done by means of
what are 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:
a hardware reset
changes to the basic device configuration
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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9.1 Sending traps
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