Traps are different from SNMP requests.  You have to have a correct 
community name to get a response from an agent. But he doesn't need any 
special community name to send you an unsolicited PDU or message, which is 
what a trap is.   In NetView, trapd doesn't care what community name an 
agent uses in a trap.  All traps are processed and displayed, and if you 
include $C on the format of the log message you can see what community 
name the device is including in the trap. 

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group

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