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Control the Times within which NNMi Causal Engine Accepts SNMP Traps

When large areas of a network are unavailable at regular and predictable hours, NNMi enables you to moderate Causal Engine analysis load by inhibiting the delivery of traps to the Causal Engine. To inhibit the delivery of traps, as an NNMi administrator, you configure times that the NNMi Causal Engine stops accepting traps from the event system.

Note This feature does not interfere with traps delivered to the NNMi console.

Traps that are delivered to the Causal Engine are used to trigger State Poller to poll a node sooner than the schedule dictated by the State Poller Polling Policy. When you inhibit the delivery of traps, NNMi must wait until the scheduled polling interval before obtaining updated information from State Poller. In all cases, the NNMi Causal Engine reaches the same conclusion with or without traps by using state flows from the NNMi State Poller.

See the "Maintaining NNMi" chapter in the Network Node Manager i Software Deployment Reference for more information.