Thanks James, you're a great help.
James_Shanks@tivoli.com wrote:
> Not really. You are asking for a formatting option in trapd.conf and there
> is not one. If you really wanted to, you could create a ruleset to
> intercept those traps, suppress them, and use an action node to send out
> another trap of your own devising, using snmptrap, which would contain the
> text you want. A less demanding method would be to define the trap so that
> the log message said something like "Service failure type $n (1 = DNS, 2
> = DHCP, 3 = LDAP)" where $n is trap variable you need, and so on. You have
> up to 1024 bytes you can display I believe. You could also define an
> additional action from the pull-down menu which would display that same
> information. See the man page on trapd.conf for how to code up an
> additional action script. The operator highlights the trap, pulls down
> "Additional Actions" on the events window, and then selects the action he
> wants. The results of your script pop-up in a window which stays until
> they dismiss it.
>
> James Shanks
> Team Leader, Level 3 Support
> Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
>
> Peter Cho <chop@tdbank.ca>@tkg.com on 02/01/2001 03:46:32 PM
>
> Please respond to IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
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> To: IBM NetView Discussion <nv-l@tkg.com>
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> Subject: [NV-L] SNMP traps
>
> I've got a product that provides number of services. When one of the
> services
> fail, it sends a SNMP trap indicating a service failure but instead of
> using a name we get an interger value.
>
> Example:
> 1 = DNS
> 2 = DHCP
> 3 = LDAP
> etc
>
> Is there a way of substituting the interger value with name? So when
> operators see the event, it's obvious what failed.
>
> Thanks.
>
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