Extreme Networks EPICenter Guide Manual page 52

Getting Started with EPICenter
Figure 20: The Scope tab of the New Alarm Definition window
NOTE
For convenience in scoping alarms, you might want to consider creating special-purpose device groups
or port groups, and use those in your alarm scope. The benefit is that you can change the scope of the
alarm simply by changing the membership of the relevant group. You will not need to modify our alarms
every time you add, move or change elements in your network —adding or removing ports or devices
from the relevant devices groups will be sufficient.
3 Click the Action tab, and do the following:
a Click the Forward trap to: check box to turn on the check.
When the checkbox is checked, a line showing the trap receiver configuration is displayed. The
trap receiver is defined by a host name, port, community string, and whether the trap should be
converted to SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c.
The information in the Action tab should look as shown in Figure 21.
52 EPICenter Concepts and Solutions Guide