A subagent can request that the SNMP agent generates a trap. The subagent must provide the desired values for the generic and specific parameters of the trap. It can optionally provide a set of one or more name, type, length, or value parameters that will be included in the trap packet.

It can optionally specify an enterprise ID (object identifier) for the trap to be generated. If a NULL value is specified for the enterprise ID, the agent will use the subagent identifier from the DPI OPEN packet as the enterprise ID to be sent with the trap.