SNMP traps

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a TCP/IP-based network-management protocol that, among other things, enables distributed systems to interchange asynchronous notifications. In event creation and processing, SNMP traps enable the notification of events between the system that is creating the event and the system that is processing the event.

IBM® Maximo® Real Estate and Facilities Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Impact Manager includes an SNMP agent that supports the use of data analysis from an external system, such as building management systems, energy management systems, or data analysis systems, to cause analytic events to be created in Maximo Real Estate and Facilities.

The analytic events that are created in Maximo Real Estate and Facilities are based on the data content that is specified in the Maximo Real Estate and Facilities Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Impact Manager SNMP trap keys. The SNMP trap keys, such as triName or triDescription, are included in the payload of the SNMP traps.

When an event is triggered by an SNMP trap, Maximo Real Estate and Facilities checks whether there is an existing event created with the same event name against the same asset within a period of time that the user defines. If there is a duplicate event that is already in process, the event is marked as a possible duplicate and is not processed.

After the SNMP-based analytic events are successfully created, you can use Maximo Real Estate and Facilities Real Estate Environmental Sustainability Impact Manager to address the equipment operating deviations that originated these external events by automatically creating service requests and work tasks that specifically target remediation actions.

You can view the SNMP properties from the Admin Console.