Built-in trap receiver

A Network Protocol Manager’s built-in trap receiver receives SNMPv1 and v2c trap messages from managed BGP- or OSPF-enabled devices through the SNMP Trap Adapter that is configured as a trap exploder. The built-in trap receiver forwards these traps to internal processing software, which parses the traps for status updates and applies the updates to attributes of objects in the Network Protocol Manager modeled topology.

By default, the built-in trap receiver is disabled, and should be enabled only if Network Protocol Manager for BGP or Network Protocol Manager for OSPF is running in the deployment:

• Network Protocol Manager for BGP uses received BGP traps to update attributes of the BGP objects in its modeled topology.

• Network Protocol Manager for OSPF uses received OSPF traps to update attributes of OSPF objects in its modeled topology.

  The built-in trap receiver is enabled for Network Protocol Manager for BGP or Network Protocol Manager for OSPF by setting the “TrapPort = 0” parameter line in the bgp.conf or ospf.conf file to a valid trap listening port.