ADM traps are short messages that openFT sends to the ADM trap server if certain events occur during operation of openFT. Such events may include errored FT requests, status changes or the unavailability of partners, for instance.
The ADM traps are stored permanently on the ADM trap server. This allows openFT systems to be monitored at a central location. The FT administrator of the ADM trap server is thus provided with a simple way of gaining an overview of events that have occurred on the openFT instances he is monitoring using the openFT Explorer or the ftshwatp command.
If the ADM trap server is simultaneously used as a remote administration server, remote administrators can also view traps from other systems and hence monitor the systems that they are administering, see the following example:
SERV10 reports via ADM trap that the partner X10 is not accessible. The remote administrator HUGO reads this trap, checks the log records and other items on SERV10 and finds out that the IP address of X10 has changed but that this modification has not been entered in the partner list. Via the remote administration server, HUGO modifies the partner list entry for X10 on SERV10 by means of the corresponding FT command.