Configure Clients to Translate Events to SNMP Traps

For the Event to Trap Translator to operate successfully, you must make sure that these operations have been performed:

• Install the TCP/IP Protocol stack on every computer from which or to which you want to receive or send traps. (The TCP/IP Protocol stack is installed from Network in Control Panel.) When installing the TCP/IP Protocol stack, make sure the SNMP Service is enabled so that the Windows NT-based client can send and receive traps.
• Configure the SNMP Service to use the appropriate Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) community, and ensure that the address (or addresses) to which SNMP traps will be forwarded is also specified.
• The community name is part of the SNMP packet when the trap is sent, and it is used for authentication.

  Note    Once the SNMP Service is installed and running, you must reapply any service pack that is being used. However, do not use Service Pack 2 for Windows NT 4.0. The SNMP Service will not work with this service pack.

• Verify that the the client software is installed and then configure the Event to Trap Translator Client Agent.

Events can be translated to SNMP traps on computers running Windows NT versions 3.51 and later.

Once clients are configured to translate events to SNMP traps, you can use the Event to Trap Translator to configure which events are translated to SNMP traps. You can configure each client individually, or you can configure one client and then export the configuration to a text file that you can use with the Remote Configuration Tool (Eventcmt.exe), in a package, to automatically configure many clients.

Related Topics

Install the SNMP Service on Windows NT Version 3.51

Install the SNMP Service on Windows NT Version 4

Install the SNMP Service on Windows NT Version 5

Configure the SNMP Service on Windows NT Version 3.51

Configure the SNMP Service on Windows NT Version 4

Configure the SNMP Service on Windows NT Version 5

Event to Trap Translator Overview