About Using SNMP Traps for Diagnostics

Simple Network Management Program (SNMP) is a protocol for network management services. Even though network management software typically uses SNMP to query or control the state of network devices like routers and switches, SNMP can be used to manage almost any resource, such as applications and databases. These devices or resources also can generate asynchronous alerts called traps to inform the management systems of problems. TimesTen supports such SNMP traps.

SNMP traps can use either UDP/IP or TCP/IP as communication protocol. TimesTen supports SNMP version 1, 2, and 3 traps. TimesTen does not send SNMP traps by itself. To generate and receive SNMP traps, you need to install Net-SNMP with the snmptrap utility. You also need to enable SNMP trap generation in the timesten.conf TimesTen instance configuration file. See Diagnostics Through SNMP Traps and How TimesTen Sends SNMP Traps in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Error Messages and SNMP Traps for details.