Question about traps and netmon..

[Gord Michaels <gord_michaels@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Hello All.

This is a general I have in the process of trying to understand Netview
better...

I understand that Netview uses the netmon daemon to 'poll' the devices
in the seedfile.

But, can/do devices generate traps on their own within polling periods
if a MIB value changes. Where/when exactly do the traps occur or does
netmon do everything associated with trap generation.

Also, can subagents like SIA generate a trap and send it to Netview
without netmon do a poll, i.e. in between polls.

Finally, do all the traps sent to Netview go to the trapd.log file or
just the ones that are sent to the Events Display?

Any info appreciated.

Gord.






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