Configuring Events for SNMP Destination

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Before you begin

Pre-requisites:

You have to configure a SNMP server to communicate with API Gateway before you select SNMP as a destination for the events and metrics for publishing to a third-party SNMP server.

About this task

You have to configure SNMP as a destination so that the event types data can be published to a third-party SNMP server.

To configure events for SNMP destination

Procedure

  1. Expand the menu options icon , in the title bar, and select Administration.
  2. Select Destinations.
  3. Select SNMP > Events to configure the event types for this destination.
  4. In Event types, select the type of events that you want API Gateway to publish to SNMP.

    The available event types are:

    • Error: Occurs each time an API invocation results in an error.
    • Lifecycle: Occurs each time API Gateway is started or shut down.
    • Policy violation: Occurs each time an API invocation violates the policy enforcement that was set for the API.
  5. Click Save.

What to do next

Post-requisites:

After configuring the events for SNMP destination, you need to select SNMP as a Destination in the Policy Properties page of the API to publish the transaction and monitoring events for the API.