I'd start by having a read of the Cisco support site on how to configure your device to send traps. Article is at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094a05.shtml
After that it's a case of using the SNMP Trap manager on your SW server and configuring some alerts. The list of traps received will also show up within the software,