Using BMC Defender Ping Monitor adapter

BMC Defender SNMP Trap Monitor adapter allows you to correlate message information, sent by devices in the form of SNMP Traps. This provides an extra capability to gather certain classes of information in a consistent way, including coldstart and warmstart messages, changes to device information, as well as all changes to interface states. The actual capability and range of messages depends on the information implemented by the SNMP agent vendor. This can be quite extensive in the case of network devices such as routers and switches.

BMC Defender SNMP Trap Monitor Adapter program requires very limited operating notes. Once you install the program, it makes use of reasonable default values. The operator only needs to direct SNMP Traps to the BMC Defender IP address, as documented by the vendor. Once you receive these traps, they appear as syslog messages in the BMC Defender system, permitting the operator to create threads and alerts for the data and correlate this information with other log messages associated with the device.

This section provides a description of these optional software elements, their usage, and other considerations, including screenshots and the explanation of monitor configuration values.

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