James, idea is to only suppress certain traps (not all) coming from the router. We rather suppress them at the source, but that may require some work for over 2000 routers.

I am having trouble finding and loading Cisco DLSW trap definitions (OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.74.2). BTW, if someone has a working trap definition shell script (via mib2trap) for CISCO-DLSW-EXT-MIB.my - please drop me a copy. For now, I have added this OID via xnmtrap with a generic 6 and specific 2 (that's what we were seeing come in tons) with the log-only option.

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From: owner-nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com [mailto:owner-nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com] On Behalf Of James Shanks
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 11:44 AM
To: nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] unknown format suppression

Well, I think that's a bad idea, but it can be done.  
Just edit trapd.conf with xnmtrap, find the Enterprises (1.3.6.1.4.1) entry which has that message as its log message, and change the status to "Log Only"

But why configure a box to send traps to NetView if you care so little about them that (a) you don't care what they look like and (b) you don't want the operator to see them?   That's just a waste of bandwidth, isn't it?    Besides you will get marginally better throughput from trapd if you define your traps, though that may be hard to measure depending on how many time this occurs.
 

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

NV 7.1.3
 
Anyway to suppress "trap found with no known format in trapd.conf" traps from being displayed in events window without having to load the trap definitions into Netview?
 
Cheers
 
Fawad Qureshi