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Change Node status from a trap

Does anyone know if there is a way to change a node status from a trap. I found how you can change the status of an interface from a trap but my device does not have any interfaces and I would like to change its status when I recieve traps that indicate it is down. I am currenlty using NPM 10.1. Thanks for the help

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bshopp

What conditions would you see this working in? Obviously if a node goes down, it cannot send a trap. Needless to say, this is not a feature we support today.

rms01

We are monitoring video projectors. There are conditions where the node will be up from NPM perspective, for example the projector is responding to pings and all the information available from the mib looks normal but the node is down and has sent a trap to indicate that it is down. Some examples of these conditions are, the lamp did not light, there is a security issue with the player, one of the covers is open and so on. Currently we are creating emails from the traps and using those as our alerts, for us it would be ideal if the trap could latch the node into some state other than up to give us a visual indication that the node is experiencing difficulties.

FormerMember

this is absolutely required... i think Big Briother does it... it changes colour for a time when a message is received for that nodes, trap or syslog.

ideally, you would relate it to the alerting, so that if a trap or syslog came into the NPM, and you deemed it important, then the node would go to a warning state for an agreed amount of time.

i believe this is what some of the high end management platforms do such as CA etc...

Ideally, solarwinds would build a database of important traps from diferent vendors... witht he help of the community, we could soon build such a database for you...imagine how much the industry would love you for it, and we would be doing most of the work for you LOL

ctopaloglu

Definitely need it! +10