Name

The name of the trap mask.

Generic

The generic trap type is an enumeration constant indicating the nature of the event being reported:

• 0 -- coldStart
• 1 -- warmStart
• 2 -- linkDown
• 3 -- linkUp
• 4 -- authenticationFailure
• 5 -- egpNeighborLoss
• 6 -- enterpriseSpecific

  You supply a Specific trap number (see below) only if the generic trap type is 6.

From

Indicates that the object identifier (OID) contained in the trap's Enterprise field must represent a branch in the MIB tree that is the same as, or subordinate to, the branch represented by the contents of the trap mask's Enterprise field.

From Only

Indicates that the OID contained in the trap's Enterprise field must match the trap mask's Enterprise attribute exactly.

Enterprise

An OID (or name) representing the object referenced by the trap.

Specific

A trap number supplied by the vendor of the product whose agent generated the trap. The significance of the trap number is defined in an ASN.1 file provided by the vendor.

Trigger Type

Trigger Type can be set to either Simple Trigger or Trigger Function. See the next two table entries for definitions of these trigger types.

Simple Trigger

A simple trigger is one that will be fired whenever the trap mask sees a trap that meets the criteria specified in the fields discussed above.

Trigger Function

A trigger function is a Perl script that is called whenever the trap mask sees a trap that meets the criteria specified in the fields discussed above. This function typically looks at information in the trap's variable bindings and fires a trigger if a condition is fulfilled. The trigger function fires this trigger using NerveCenter's FireTrigger() function.

Enabled

As with a poll, a trap that is disabled (Enabled is set to Off) is nonfunctional.