Event to Trap Translator Overview

Use the Event to Trap Translator for configuring events on Windows NT clients to translate to SNMP trap. You can browse for all the possible events that can be translated to SNMP traps on a client, and you can easily add or remove events from a client configuration. Also, you can use this tool to configure clients individually. The Event to Trap Translator gives you the option to configure one client and then export that configuration to a text file. You can then use this text file with the Remote Configuration Tool, in a package, to automatically configure many clients with the same configuration.

Specified events are translated only while the SNMP service is running (the Event to Trap Translator runs as part of this service). However, if the computer running the Event to Trap Translator is restarted, the Event to Trap Translator also restarts. After restart, the Event to Trap Translator looks at the event log to see if any new specified events have occurred between the time the computer restarted and the Event to Trap Translator restarted. If so, the Event to Trap Translator translates these events.

Added events persist between invocations of the Event to Trap Translator; once added, they remain in the configuration registry until you remove them.

Note    The SNMP service must be stopped and restarted on a client after the Event to Trap Translator is installed, or the Event to Trap Translator will not function. The first time the Event to Trap Translator is started, no events are listed because none have been specified.

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Configure Clients to Translate Events to SNMP Traps

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Remotely Modify the Client Configuration for SNMP

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Start the Event to Trap Translator

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Specify Client Events to Translate to SNMP Traps

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Remove an Event Being Translated into SNMP Traps

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Modify Event Properties

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Specify Trap Settings for Events

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Export an Event Configuration

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Search for Events to Translate to SNMP Traps

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About the Event to Trap Translator Window

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About Custom Events

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Translating SNMP Traps Overview