This class method allows a application to send an alert using an external
monitoring or management interface, currently just SNMP. This call may
be used within the Alert Evaluation Method to forward alerts generated by the
Monitor, or from anywhere within the application itself to simply create
an SNMP Trap.
The parameters used are:
type = use 'SNMP' to indicate how to send the alert
appname = a brief string (MAXLEN=20) to identify the source or application creating the alert
severity = a severity code where 0=info, 1=warning, 2=severe, 3=fatal
msg = a text message (MAXLEN=1024) which describes the problem or event
For SNMP, the alert is sent using the cacheAppAlert trap, with each of the
parameters attached as auxiliary objects (see the ISC-CACHE.MIB).