Steps to change the Expiration Time of a Trap processed by the Smarts Trap Adapter (TA)

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance
• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

Expiration Time of a Trap processed by the Smarts Trap Adapter (TA) will allow the notification to stay visible longer.
Is it possible to change the Expiration Time of a Trap processed by the Smarts Trap Adapter (TA)

Environment

All supported release of Smarts

Resolution

Follow the below steps to change line "Expiration" to the value required on <BASEDIR>/SAM/smarts/conf/icoi/trap_mgr.conf file using sm_edit:

1. ./sm_edit ../conf/icoi/trap_mgr.conf

2. Update the defaults section with the new expiration time:

   BEGIN_TRAP <Enterprise OID> <Generic Trap Number> <Specific Trap Number>
   ClassName: SNMPTrap
   Category: SNMPTrap
   InstanceName: $SYS$
   EventName: $E$ $N$ $S$
   Severity: 2
   EventText: Varbinds: $V*$
   Expiration: 84600
   State: NOTIFY
   InMaintenance: FALSE
   ClearOnAcknowledge: TRUE
   EventType: MOMENTARY
   SysNameOrAddr: $A$
   UnknownAgent: IGNORE
   LogFile: NONE
   END_DEFAULTS

   
   This Expiration time is an unsigned integer.

<Enterprise OID>: The OID the trap uses for identification
<Generic Trap Number>:  The first number after the enterprise OID the identifies the generic class of the trap
<Specific Trap Number>:  The second number after the enterprise OID that identifies the specific type of trap