damsnmptaud is SNMP Trap Analyser and it is a part of Operation Manager. It's also SNMP Trap Interface. It is a daemon process which works all the time the system is running and it expects SNMP Trap type data (these messages are not TRAP-PDU type notifications as in SNMP protocol). damsnmptaud calculates severity of each received message on the basis of its configuration file and then it forwards them. A typical receiver of processed messages is Associations Database.

damsnmptaud reads its configuration file .damsnmptaudrc during its startup. The program expects to find the configuration file in the directory /etc/david-system. damsnmptaud daemon won't be run if it can't read its configuration file.