Forward Traps to a Remote Server Example

Use this help topic to guide you when you want to forward traps to a remote server that can receive SNMP traps, such as an Operations Manager or another NNMi management server.

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

To configure NNMi to forward SNMP traps to a remote server:

  1. Navigate to the Trap Forwarding Filters tab.
  2. Click the  New icon.
  3. Enter a filter name; for example, NNMi Remote Server.
  4. Navigate to the Filter Expressions tab.
  5. Click the  New icon.
  6. In the Trap Object Identifier attribute, enter: .1.3.*
  7. Click  Save and Close to return to the Trap Forwarding Filter form.
  8. Click  Save and Close to return to the Trap Forwarding Configuration form.
  9. Navigate to the Trap Forwarding Destinations tab.
  10. Click the  New icon.
  11. Provide the following information for the remote server to which SNMP traps will be forwarded:

    1. Destination Name.
    2. Destination Address.
    3. Destination Port.
    4. Forwarding Options.
  12. Click  Save and Close to return to the Trap Forwarding Configuration form.
  13. Click  Save and Close to save your changes.

In this example, Network Node Manager i Software forwards any SNMP traps with the enterprise address .1.3.* to the trap destination you configured.

When forwarding SNMP traps, note the following:

  • NNMi appends two varbinds to the original SNMP trap and forwards it to the configured destinations.
  • Trap forwarding does not result in any NNMi Incident enrichment to the forwarded SNMP traps.