Don > The OP wanted to send traps, not receive them.
Amazingly, the "SNMP manger API" offers the creation and sending of notifications. Whether the "notification" protocol is symmetrical, hence peer- to-peer, or an asymmetrical, generally implying client-server, will need a reading of the relevant RFC to sort out. That way we can work out what all this "sending" to an SNMP agent is about! Chris Mason On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:29:56 -0500, Don Poitras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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
