In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:23:10 -0500, Don Poitras > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >... > >If you're willing to write some code, you can use DPI to issue the > >traps. See: > > > >http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi- > bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ezap4002/5.0 > >... > I hadn't looked at DPI for several years so I had to refesh my > memory. I could have easily overlooked something, but as near > as I can tell, DPI is primarily for communication between agent and > subagent. A subagent can use DPI to generate a trap. Isn't that what the OP was asking how to do? Yes, this requires the standard MVS SNMP agent to be up and running. > However, (if I understand the term manager) it sounds like this > really should be a SNMP manager function. Sort of a manager to > manager process (which may be outside of official SNMP use.) I > see in a z/OS 1.9 manual that there is an SNMP Manager API > available in 1.9. I'm stuck on 1.8 so I can't check this out, but I > saw a "What's new" doc on the web that says: > z/OS Communications Server also provides an extension of the > SNMP Manager API, the SNMP Notification API, which > leverages the functionality of the SNMP Manager API to send > notifications to SNMP agents and/or SNMP Notification > Receivers. Available notifications include Informs and both > Version 1 and Version 2 Traps. > I think this API is really the way to go if you have 1.9 or later. The OP wanted to send traps, not receive them. > I've never looked into "Informs", but I gather they are sort of > "guaranteed delivery" traps. > Pat O'Keefe -- Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive [EMAIL PROTECTED] (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
