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Event recipients, Overview, Trap receiver settings – APC Switched Rack Power Distribution Unit (PDU) User Manual

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Event Recipients

Overview

The Web interface and control console both have options that allow you to
define up to four trap receivers and up to four e-mail addresses to be used
when an event occurs that has the SNMP traps or e-mail enabled.

Trap receiver settings

To define which NMSs will receive traps:

• In the Web interface, use the Recipients option of the Events menu.

In the control console, use the

SNMP

option in the

Network

menu.

Choose one of the trap receivers to modify, or select Settings and
enable SNMP access for all trap receivers.

See

Event Actions (Web Interface Only)

Item

Definition

Community Name

This setting defines the password (maximum of 15
characters) used when traps are sent to the NMS
identified by the Receiver NMS IP setting.

Receiver NMS IP

Identifies by IP address the NMS that will receive traps.
If this setting is 0.0.0.0 (the default value), traps will not
be sent to any NMS.

Generation (Web interface)
Trap Generation (control
console)

Enables (by default) or disables the sending of any traps
to the NMS identified by the Receiver NMS IP setting.

Authentication Traps

Enables or disables the sending of authentication traps
to the NMS identified by the Receiver NMS IP setting.