Trap Test Possibility

Trap and Syslog Rule actions cannot be tested, the exact messages will need to come from the device, or a message generator to test the Rules. There is a Trap Editor and Sender that could work out of the Engineer's Toolset. Syslog is a little bit easier as we have Kiwi Syslog Generator.

As you know there are two protocols. Event base protocols and Query base protocols. SNMP traps belong to event base protocol. Trap are self-generated due some type of event taking place.

But how to create a such situation in lab environment for learning purpose that is easy if you have the basic resources and know how to setup a network environment. Have an host machine, create three Virtual machine ( VMware)

Use your host machine as monitoring and use the two or three machines you created has devices. Start playing with memory setting. Alert will be trigger as Traps