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Trap and Incident Forwarding

The following table summarizes the ways to forward traps and incidents from the NNMi management server to another destination. The text following the table compares the NNMi SNMP trap forwarding mechanism with the NNMi northbound interface SNMP trap forwarding mechanism.

Supported Ways to Forward Traps and NNMi Incidents

 

NNMi Trap Forwarding

 

 

NNMi Northbound Interface Trap Forwarding

Global Network Management Trap Forwarding

What to forward

  • SNMP traps from network devices
  • syslog messages from ArcSight Logger
  • SNMP traps from network devices
  • NNMi management events
  • syslog messages from ArcSight Logger
  • SNMP traps from network devices
  • syslog messages from ArcSight Logger

Forwarding format

SNMPv1, v2c, or v3 traps, as received

(SNMPv3 traps can be converted to SNMPv2c traps)

SNMPv2c traps created from NNMi incidents

NNMi incidents

Added information

In most cases, NNMi adds varbinds to identify the original source object.

NNMi does not ever modify SNMPv1 traps.

NNMi adds varbinds to identify the original source object.

Any information added to the incident by the regional manager processes is retained in the forwarded incident.

Where to configure

Trap Forward Configuration in the Configuration workspace

HPOM, Northbound Interface, or Netcool in the Integration Module Configuration workspace

Forward to Global Managers tab on an SNMP Trap Configuration form or syslog configuration.

Notes

 

NNMi provides several integrations built on the NNMi northbound interface.

Also see the Network Node Manager i Software—IBM Tivoli Netcool/ OMNIbus Integration Guide and Network Node Manager i Software— Operations Manager Integration Guide.

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Forward the remote incidents that should be visible in the global manager incident views. Forwarded incidents participate in correlations on the global manager.

For more information

Configuring Trap Forwarding in the NNMi help

See the "NNMi Northbound Interface" chapter in the NNMi Deployment Reference.

  • Configure Forward to Global Manager Settings for an SNMP Trap Incident in the NNMi help