Your problem with the "netmon-related application" disconnecting from trapd
may not be due to a trap storm.
Applications get forced off in this fashion when they don't process the
traps in their queues and they fill up.

If you enable servmon but don't configure /usr/OV/conf/servmon.conf to
discover any services, then servmon won't process any traps either and he
may the one getting disconnected.  If so, this is harmless and can be
ignored, but then you ought to consider whether you should waste the
resources of having sermon up with nothing to do.  You can just stop him
with ovstop, or de-register him with  "ovdelobj /usr/OV/lrf/sermon.lrf"  so
that he is no longer started.  If you decide you want to monitor services
later, you can edit servmon.conf and re-register him with  "ovaddobj
/usr/OV/lrf/sermon.lrf" .

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