Users Guide
Edit Trap Denitions
Table 209. Edit Trap Denitions
Field Description
Trap Name or Enterprise OID Field to provide the trap name or enterprise OID of the trap you 
want to edit.
Search Click to search the OpenManage Essentials database for the 
trap name or enterprise OID that you provided.
Event Category Click to display the event categories dened in the 
OpenManage Essentials database. You can select a category to 
display all the traps dened for that category in the Edit Trap(s) 
grid. You can also navigate and select a particular trap from the 
category.
Edit Traps
Name  Displays the trap name.
Category Name  Displays the category name of the trap.
Severity  Displays the severity of the trap.
Format String  Displays the message string that is displayed in the 
OpenManage Essentials alert logs.
Enterprise OID  Displays the enterprise OID (SNMP OID prex) of the event 
source that you want to monitor.
Description Displays the trap description.
Generic Trap ID  Displays the generic trap ID of the SNMP trap that you want to 
monitor from the required event source.
Specic Trap ID  Displays the specic trap ID of the SNMP trap that you want to 
monitor from the required event source.
Save Click to save the changes to the OpenManage Essentials 
database.
Alert Source
Each Alert Category contains alert sources. Click an alert category to view alert sources. Expand a category to view the list of alert 
sources, and select an alert source.
Table 210. Alert Source
Field Description
Name The name of the new alert source, for example, myFanAlert.
Type The protocol information.
Catalog Provides the catalog information.
Severity Species the severity assigned to the alert that is triggered if 
the alert source generates the specied SNMP trap.
Format string Provides the message string that appears in the Alert Logs if the 
alert source generates an alert of sucient severity to trigger 
the alert. You can use formatting commands to specify parts of 
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