watch4net and EMC SMARTS

Hi Vtrack,

You have a few options, but one that I would recommend would be to configure Watch4Net to send traps to a Smarts Trap Adapter.  There you can configure all the events and how they'll be translated/presented to the Smarts Global Console.  You may also refer to the APG-Alerting-Guide.pdf found in the installation directory:

/opt/APG/Doc/APG-Alerting-Guide.pdf

Thanks,

JT

You may also want to look into the Notification Module (NOTIF) - it makes configuration of trap handling a lot simpler than the basic ASL script method. The document

'EMC Ionix ITOps Notification Module

Version 8.1 Service Pack 1

User Guide

P/N 300-012-288

REV A01' describes it.

Hello,

Agree with the above but please make sure that the APG/W4N server has been discovered by Smarts IP domain manager in order the traps not to be ignored.

Cheers

Arch

I also strongly recommend using the NOTIF manager for trap processing. One of the issues you will find with using traps from APG/W4N into Smarts (or traps from any EMS/NMS managing end devices) is that by default the trap will be associated to the W4N server, which is why Arch's comment about discovering the W4N server is critical (so that it has the object in the topology to associate the trap to).

Using NOTIF however, you can use an ASL script to extract the actual end device information from the trap and then associated the trap to the device rather than the W4N server.

Benjamin Johns

iQ Consult