Hirschmann MS30, Power MICE, MACH 4000, OCTOPUS, User Manual

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Operation Diagnostics
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9.1 Sending traps
Layer 2 Enhanced with Layer 2 Professional
Release 1.0 10/05
9.1 Sending traps
If unusual events occur during normal operation of the Switch, they are
reported immediately to the management station. This is done by means of
so-called
traps - alarm messages - that bypass the polling procedure
(“Polling” means querying the data stations at regular intervals). Traps make
it possible to react quickly to critical situations.
Examples of such events are:
D
a hardware reset
D
changing the basic device configuration
D
segmentation of a port
Traps can be sent to various hosts to increase the transmission reliability for
the messages. A trap message consists of a packet that is not acknowl-
edged.
The Switch sends traps to those hosts that are entered in the trap destination
table. The trap destination table can be configured with the management sta-
tion via SNMP.