4-24 C HAPTER 4: M ANAGING T HE S WITCH 1000Setting Up TrapsTraps are messages sent across the network to anSNMP Network Manager. They alert the networkadministrator to faults or changes at the Switchdevice.Your Network Manager may automatically set uptraps in the Switch Trap Table. Check the documen-tation accompanying your network managementsoftware.To access the Trap Setup screen, select the SETUPTRAPS button from the Management Setup screen(described in Chapter 3). The Trap Setup screen isshown in Figure 4-16.The screen shows the following:IP or IPX Address This field allows you to enter theIP or IPX address of the remote network manage-ment stations to which traps should be sent.Community String This field allows you to entercommunity strings for each remote Network Man-ager, allowing a very simple method of authentica-tion between the Switch and the remote NetworkManager. The text string can be of 32 characters orless. If you want a Network Manager to receivetraps generated by the device, you must enter thecommunity string of the Network Manager into thetrap table. The default community string is public.Figure 4-16 Trap Setup screenThrottle This field allows you to specify a throttledelay value for each remote Network Manager.Throttle delays are time periods placed betweenpackets to prevent a remote Network Managerreceiving too many traps at once. The unit of throt-tle is one thousandth of a second. The defaultvalue is 100, which gives a delay of one tenth of asecond between each packet transmission.
