[c-nsp] Automatic SNMP trap generation

Marko Milivojevic markom at pangalactic.net
Wed Apr 26 06:06:17 EDT 2006


> We need to run through our NMS and check that every device is correctly
> sending traps (and that the traps actually reach the NMS). Is there any way,
> perhaps using the SNMP r/w community, to get a Cisco device to generate a
> test (or unimportant) trap?

	If you're sending interface transitions as traps, you could create loopback 
interface and immediately shut it down. This is a little bit crude, but it 
should work.

Marko.


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