The SNMP Alarm Notification Destination object defines the location of a management application (such as the IBM Tivoli Netcool software) to which SNMP alarm notifications are sent. It is a child of the SNMP Alarm Notification Destinations object.
If Alarm Monitoring has not been enabled on the Element Management System, you can configure this object but it will not be enabled until Alarm Monitoring is enabled. To enable Alarm Monitoring, you must set Alarm monitoring at next restart - enabled on the Element Management System object to True and restart the EMS Server.
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Send all SNMP alarm notifications | This action is available only if this object's Actual status is Enabled. If the destination management application that receives notifications of EMS alarms (such as the IBM Tivoli Netcool software) has just started, or if notifications are being sent as Traps (unacknowledged) and you believe some may have been lost, you can use this pushbutton to send notifications of all current alarms, to ensure that the two systems are synchronized as quickly as possible. This action only applies to the destination specified by this object. If you want to synchronize with more than one destination (and therefore more than one object), you must perform this action separately on each SNMP Alarm Notification Destination object. |
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Description |
Description | Change Inactive | A text string providing information about the Alarm Destination. This field is optional. Specify a string of up to 64 characters. |
Notification type | Change Inactive | Specifies whether to use Informs or Traps when sending SNMP Alarm Notifications to the destination. Values:
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Destination address | Change Inactive | The IP address of the server that the management application runs on. Specify a standard dotted-decimal IP address. The combination of Destination address and Destination port must not match the address and port used by any other SNMP Alarm Notification Destination. |
Destination port | Change Inactive | The UDP port number used to communicate with the management application. Range: 0-65535. The default is 162. The combination of Destination address and Destination port must not match the address and port used by any other SNMP Alarm Notification Destination. |
Source port (first of 5) | Change Inactive | This field appears only if Notification type is set to Inform. Specifies the number of the first of five UDP ports used by the EMS Server to listen for acknowledgements of SNMP notifications. The range of port numbers used must not overlap with the range of source port numbers used by any other SNMP Alarm Notification Destination. Range: 0-65535. The default is 8007, or the start of the first range of five consecutive unused port numbers after 8007. There is usually no need to change this value from the default. |
Community | Change Inactive | The SNMP community on which SNMP alarm notifications are sent. Specify a community. The default is "public". |
Requested status | Read only | Specifies whether an administrator has attempted to enabled or disable this object. Values:
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Actual status | Read only | Specifies the current status of the SNMP Alarm Notification Destination. Values:
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