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Configure Trap Forwarding Filters

[This is the Context-Sensitive Help topic for the Incident Configuration: Trap Forwarding Filter Configuration tab.]

Pre-requisite: Make sure you have used the NNMi nnmincidentcfg.ovpl command line utility to automatically create or update the incident configurations for the SNMP traps you want to include. See Load SNMP Trap Incident Configurations for more information.

Use the Trap Forwarding Configuration: Trap Forwarding Filters tab to configure a filter expression to specify the SNMP trap Object Identifier (OID) pattern you want to use to determine which SNMP traps NNMi forwards. The traps which pass the filter you specify can then be forwarded to a specified destination using the Trap Forwarding Destinations tab. See Configure Trap Forwarding Destinations for more information.

Note See Manage Incoming SNMP Traps for information about the criteria NNMi uses to determine when to receive or discard traps.

To configure Trap Forwarding Filters:

  1. Select the Trap Forwarding Filters tab.
  2. Do one of the following:

    • To create an SNMP Trap Forwarding Filter configuration, click the  New icon, and continue.
    • To edit an SNMP Trap Forwarding Filter configuration, click the  Open icon in the row representing the configuration you want to edit, and continue.
    • To delete an SNMP Trap Forwarding Filters configuration, click the  Delete icon.
  3. In the Trap Forwarding Filter Form provide the required information.
  4. Click  Save and Close to save your changes and return to the Trap Forwarding Configuration form.

The next time that a trap of this type arrives, NNMi uses the filter you specify to determine whether to forward the trap to a specified destination.