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Page title

For most spaces, this page must be titled Space announcements.

For spaces with localized content, this page must be titled Space announcements l10n.

Purpose

Provide an announcement banner on every page of your space.

Location

Move this page outside of your home branch.

Guidelines

Announcement Support for this product will end on November 3, 2025. We recommend that you use PATROL for Linux, PATROL for AIX, or PATROL for Solaris to monitor operating systems.

Testing the SNMP Master Agent's Ability to Receive Traps

This task describes how to test if the SNMP Master Agent is listening for SNMP traps.

Before you begin

  • The trap port is stored in the agent configuration variable /snmp/trap_port. The default value is 162. You might need to change this port setting if some other process already uses this port. This task will fail if the port is used by another process.
  • This task should be performed in conjunction with the task, Generating-Manual-SNMP-Traps. This task provides a mechanism (a BMC PATROL task object) with which to view the manually generated traps.

To Test the Master Agent's Ability to Receive Traps

  1. Access the SNMPHealth application menu as described in Accessing KM Commands and InfoBoxes.
  2. Select Test PATROL SNMP System > Listen for SNMP Traps. BMC PATROL writes the information to a BMC PATROL task object (Listen for SNMP Traps) in the UNIX OS container.

  3. Access the Listen for SNMP Traps task object as described in Accessing KM Commands and InfoBoxesand view the results. Your results should resemble this example:

    Note

    While the task object is executing, it displays any SNMP traps received at the trap port.

    SNMP Listen Running...

Related topics

SNMPHealth-SNMPHealth

Monitoring-the-health-of-SNMP

SNMP-Configuration

Status-of-SNMP-Agents

Tests-SNMP-Functionality

 

 

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