ZyXEL Communications 5 Series User Manual

Chapter 47 SNMP Configuration

ZyWALL 5/35/70 Series User’s Guide

The ZyWALL will send traps to the SNMP manager when any one of the following events 
occurs:

Destination

Type the IP address of the station to send your SNMP traps to.

When you have completed this menu, press [ENTER] at the prompt “Press [ENTER] to confirm or 
[ESC] to cancel” to save your configuration or press [ESC] to cancel and go back to the previous 
screen.

Table 250   SNMP Configuration Menu Fields (continued)

Table 251   SNMP Traps

0

coldStart (defined in RFC-1215)

A trap is sent after booting (power on).

1

warmStart (defined in RFC-1215)

A trap is sent after booting (software reboot).

4

authenticationFailure (defined in 
RFC-1215)

A trap is sent to the manager when receiving any 
SNMP get or set requirements with the wrong 
community (password).

6

whyReboot (defined in ZYXEL-
MIB)

A trap is sent with the reason of restart before rebooting 
when the system is going to restart (warm start).

6a

For intentional reboot:

A trap is sent with the message "System reboot by 
user!" if reboot is done intentionally, (for example, 
download new files, CI command "sys reboot", etc.).

6b

For fatal error: 

A trap is sent with the message of the fatal code if the 
system reboots because of fatal errors.