WhatsUp Gold has an internal SNMP trap handler, which when enabled, listens for and accepts SNMP traps. WhatsUp Gold records the trap in the device's SNMP Trap Log.
You can also set up WhatsUp Gold to fire an Action when a trap is received for a device. For more information, see Using the Trap Definition Import Tool.
To configure WhatsUp Gold to receive traps:
C:\Program Files\Ipswitch\WhatsUp\Data\Mibs
directory.Caution: When Accept unsolicited SNMP traps is enabled, every SNMP trap that is received by WhatsUp Gold is logged to the database. Since leaving this option enabled can result in a large database that impacts performance, we strongly advise you to leave this option disabled except when troubleshooting.
Note: To configure SNMP traps initially, we recommend enabling the Any SNMP trap on the source device; you can then see all incoming traps sent from that device in the Device SNMP Trap Log. After you configure the trap successfully, remember to disable the Any trap, as it may also log large amounts of data.
Note: If the SNMP agent is installed on the WhatsUp Gold machine, this will also start an SNMP trap service. This can result in a port conflict, because both the SNMP trap service and the WhatsUp Gold SNMP trap handler listen on port 162. To fix this, turn off the SNMP trap service.