Understanding trap count and trap rate for a Trap Adapter.

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Command to get the trap count and trap rate for a trap adapter process.

Environment

SMARTS-10.1.x

Resolution

Use the following dmctl command to get this information:

• dmctl -s <INCHARGE-TA> get SNMP_TrapManager::SNMP-Trap-Manager

The output of this command will contain two lines indicating the trapCount and trapRate since the adapter was started as in the following example (the trapRate is in traps/minute).

trapCount = 519886
trapRate = 175.8748