[AGENT++] Re: newbie: clear a trap?

[Frank Fock]

Hi John,

Traps are used in SNMP for the "trap directed
polling" concept (for details see the SNMP FAQ
of comp.protocols.snmp). Thus, traps do not
transport any important information, because
they can get lost. Instead traps are only a hint
for a notification receiver, that something
happened on the agent side.

Consequently, traps cannot be cleared or
acknowledged. On a higher level of abstraction,
however, alarms can be cleared and acknowledged.
An alarm is normally created on behalf of information
retrieved from an agent by GET/GETNEXT/GETBULK
requests - potentially trigger by an inform or
trap.

Best regards,
Frank

John Mudd wrote:
> "As soon as a trap is acknowledged, it is considered cleared."
> http://www.dpstele.com/layers/l2/snmp_tutorials.html
> 
> Okay, how does someone on the Manager side usually acknowledge a trap?
> By preforming a Set?
> 
> 
> On 3/1/07, John Mudd <johnbmudd at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What does it mean to "clear a trap"?
>>
>> John
>>
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