Turning off Application Traps

[Kevin Kelling]

Is there a way to globally disable application traps?

We are rolling out OpenView agents and we do not want these traps turing our nodes red on the service map.

I can't seen to find a setting for this within "Replicate Agent Settings". Anyone know of a way to globally turn this off on a group of nodes from the SIM console?

Thanks!

[Joel Rubenstein]

If you remove the trap destination(s) from the SNMP service configuration you will no longer receive traps from the Insight agents.

This can be done via replicate agent settings.

[Kevin Kelling]

Thanks but I don't want to disable traps completely...just for things that are not critical such as application traps.

[Joel Rubenstein]

can you be more specific? What do you mean by "application traps"?

[Kevin Kelling]

When you go into the Control panel applet for the HP Agents there is a checkbox for "Send Application Traps".

This will send a trap whenever a client process aborts abnormally (i.e. JAVA.EXE or MMC.EXE crashes).

These events are always interpreted to be critical by OpenView. We simply don't want this as if there is a process we want to monitor we can look for it explicitly in OpenView. The problem today is that nodes turn red in the Service Map because a client application (mmc, java, explorer, etc). crashes

[Joel Rubenstein]

On all my servers running the 7.0 and 7.1 agents the setting "Enable Application Exception Trap" is off by default.

This does not seem to be configurable via "Replicate Agent Settings"

[Kevin Kelling]

I already figured that out. That's why I was asking :) Thanks.