Sending SNMP Trap Notifications

Using the Enterprise Manager notification system, you can share Enterprise Manager event or incident information with other SNMP-enabled third-party applications through SNMP traps. Enterprise Manager supports the SNMPv1 protocol for sending traps. For example, you might want to send event information as traps to a third-party applications from Enterprise Manager when one of the following events takes place:

• a certain metric has exceeded a threshold (metric alert event)

• a target is down (target availability event)

• a job fails (job status change event)

  Note:

  For a full list and description of Enterprise Manager event types, see Event Management.

Using SNMP traps with the notification system is a matter of:

1. Defining a notification method that uses an SNMP trap. For more information, see Sending SNMP Traps to Third Party Systems.
2. Assigning the notification method to a rule. You can edit an existing rule or create a new incident rule. For more information, see Creating a Rule to Send SNMP Traps for Events to Third Party Systems or Creating a Rule to Send SNMP Traps for Incidents to Third Party Systems.