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+.. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
+.. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
+
+Offered APIs
+============
+
+**SNMPTRAP** supports the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
+standard.  It is a well documented and pervasive protocol,
+used in all networks worldwide.
+
+As an API offering, the only way to interact with **SNMPTRAP** is
+to send traps that conform to the industry standard specification
+(RFC1215 - available at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1215 ) to a
+running instance.  To accomplish this, you may:
+
+1. Configure SNMP agents to send native traps to a SNMPTRAP instance.
+   In SNMP agent configurations, this is usually accomplished by
+   setting the "trap target" or "snmp manager" to the IP address
+   of the running VM/container hosting SNMPTRAP.
+
+2. Mimic a SNMP trap using various freely available utilities.  Two
+   examples are provided below, be sure to change the target
+   ("localhost") and port ("162") to applicable values in your
+   environment.
+
+Net-SNMP
+--------
+
+.. code-block:: bash
+
+   snmptrap -d -v 1 -c public ${to_ip_address}:${to_portt} .1.3.6.1.4.1.99999 localhost 6 1 '55' .1.11.12.13.14.15  s "test trap"
+
+.. note::
+
+   This will display some "read_config_store open failure" errors;
+   they can be ignored, the trap has successfully been sent to the
+   specified destination.
+
+pysnmp
+------
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+        from pysnmp.hlapi import *
+        from pysnmp import debug
+        
+        # debug.setLogger(debug.Debug('msgproc'))
+        
+        errorIndication, errorStatus, errorIndex, varbinds = next(sendNotification(SnmpEngine(),
+             CommunityData('not_public'),
+             UdpTransportTarget(('localhost', 162)),
+             ContextData(),
+             'trap',
+             [ObjectType(ObjectIdentity('.1.3.6.1.4.1.999.1'), OctetString('test trap - ignore')),
+              ObjectType(ObjectIdentity('.1.3.6.1.4.1.999.2'), OctetString('ONAP pytest trap'))])
+        )
+        
+        if errorIndication:
+            print(errorIndication)
+        else:
+            print("successfully sent first trap example, number %d" % i)