Trap Filters

In this menu you can find or create a list for passing traps to monitoring process. Traps allow to monitor devices which cannot be retrieved via SNMP. The monitored device sends traps to the SONARPLEX appliance to report certain results. Trap Filters are used for determining if traps received by SONARPLEX will be passed to monitoring process or blocked otherwise.

To edit or create a new or existing trap filter, proceed as follows:

1. Open the Administration Web Interface > Configuration > Trap Filters and select "Create new Filter" or an existing one (see picture below).
   

2. Enter your settings or changes, as described in the table below.

   Parameter	Description
   Filter name	Filter name to be used as filter ID The name must be unique. Allowed characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and underscore (_).
   Source address	Address of host sending the trap (empty address means that any source address is allowed to pass appropriate trap).
   OID	OID of the trap. If specified OID matches OID of appropriate trap or any of its bound data OIDs, the trap will be passed to the monitoring process.
   Resulting service state	Service state created by determining passive check result for service matching trap parameters. Following values are allowed: “OK”, “WARNING”, “CRITICAL”, “UNKOWN”. There are two different options to determine service state: The filter option above and service definition. By default the filter option is used. This which may be changed by service definition afterwards during trap processing.

You can see at the bottom the list of traps, which are recently received. The list can be toggled between by process level trap properties unfiltered, filtered, processed and all traps.