From: John Tafasi (johntafasi@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Feb 16 2003 - 18:34:37 GMT-3
I also found this from cisco's web site "SNMP notifications can be sent as
traps or inform requests"
So notification is either a trap or inform request sent by the router.
Thanks for all
----- Original Message -----
From: "brett spunt" <bspunt@socal.rr.com>
To: "'John Tafasi'" <johntafasi@yahoo.com>; <cisco@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:51 PM
Subject: RE: Difference between SNMP notifications and traps [7:62478]
> I guess it depends on the context, but when configuring a Network Mgmt
> Server, like Ciscoworks, insight manager, etc. a SNMP notification
> refers to a SMTP email, or pager notification, etc. of a warning, or
> critical situation that has occurred, with the NMS learning about it
> through various methods, like SNMP polling, or SNMP trap receiving (the
> end node sends a trap about an event that has occurred, like a link
> down, power supply failure, etc)
> Polling is done on a different UDP port, and is done by the NMS
> actively, where a "trap" is generated by the end node to the NMS
> (Network mgmt server)
>
> Hope that helps...
>
> Brett Spunt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> John Tafasi
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 4:22 PM
> To: cisco@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Difference between SNMP notifications and traps [7:62478]
>
> What is the difference between an SNMP notification and an SNMP trap?
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