Defining traps in a configuration file

You might want to define traps in a configuration file. You load the file with the snmp traps load command. If you define and load traps this way, Data ONTAP automatically backs up your SNMP configuration in Snapshot copies, making it easy to transfer user-defined traps to other storage systems, and simplifying recovery of SNMP configurations if there is a disaster.

Steps

1. Create a traps configuration file on your storage system—for example, /etc/mib/mytraps. The name and location of the file is at your discretion.
2. Enter the traps in the configuration file in the following form:

   trapname.parmvalue

   The parameters are the same as those used with the snmp traps command.

3. Test each line of the file by entering the snmp traps command at the command line or by specifying the trap with FilerView. Make corrections as needed.
4. Load the configuration file with the snmp traps load command. For example:

   snmp traps load /etc/mib/mytraps