Ways to define or modify a trap

You can define traps or modify traps you have already defined by entering values at the command line, in FilerView, or in a configuration file.

You must supply the following elements when creating or modifying traps.

Trap name—the name of the user-defined trap you want to create or change. A trap name must have no embedded periods.
Trap parameters
Parameter value

Note: When you create a user-defined trap, it is initially disabled by default. You must enable a trap before it can be triggered. You enable traps using the snmp traps command or FilerView.

Viewing and modifying trap values at the command line
You can view or modify your trap values through your command-line interface.
Viewing or modifying trap values with FilerView
You can use FilerView to view or modify a trap value.
Defining traps in a configuration file
You might want to define traps in a configuration file. You load the file with the snmp traps load command. If you define and load traps this way, Data ONTAP automatically backs up your SNMP configuration in Snapshot copies, making it easy to transfer user-defined traps to other storage systems, and simplifying recovery of SNMP configurations if there is a disaster.
Example of trap definitions
Here is a group of traps that you can define either at the command line or with FilerView.
Command syntax for SNMP trap parameters
If you specify one or more values for an option of the SNMP commands, the value of that option is set or changed. However, if no values are specified, the current value of that option is returned.
SNMP trap parameters
You might need to know the parameters used to create SNMP traps.

Parent topic: User-defined SNMP traps