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How to Use Trap Masks

In the last chapter you learned how to create, modify, and enable alarms. An alarm will only transition from one state to another when a trigger generator fires a trigger. You have already created one trigger generator, a poll. In this chapter you will create another type of trigger generator, a trap mask.

This chapter explains:

What a trap mask is and how it fits in a behavior model
How to create a new mask
How to create an alarm associated with a mask
How to generate an artificial trap
How to modify a mask's trigger function

This chapter includes the following sections:

Sections Included in this Chapter

Section	Description
What is a Trap Mask?	Explains that a trap mask fires a trigger when it detects a relevant SNMP trap from a managed node or other source.
How to Create a Trap Mask	Steps you through the process of creating a trap mask and an associated alarm.
Review and Summary	Gives you the opportunity to review what you learned.

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