Trap Forwarding Filter Form

[This is the context-sensitive Help topic for the Incident Configuration: Trap Forwarding Filters form.] 

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.

The Trap Forwarding Filters Form enables you 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 add 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 Filter configuration, click the Delete icon.
  3. Make your configuration choices (see table).
  4. Click  Save and Close to save your changes and return to the Trap Forwarding Configuration form.
SNMP Trap Forwarding Filters Configuration
Attribute Description
Filter Name

Enter the name you want to use for this SNMP Trap Forwarding Filter configuration.

Alpha-numeric and special characters (~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _+ -) are permitted. No spaces are permitted.

Filter Form Access the Filter Expressions tab to access the Filter form and specify the valid SNMP Object Identifier (OID) pattern to be used for the SNMP trap filter.