> I am an SNMP newbie. I've started a project at work to monitor availability > of services on a server. These services support SNMP v1, but the docs are > pretty slim. > > I've been playing around with Net-SNMP and can do a simple SNMP get from my > workstation for the server's name and so on, so I know SNMP works on > it. However, I can't figure out how to receive a trap from the app's agent > on the server. There are too many factors with that configuration to mention > now, so I'd like to pose a simple question. > > What is the simplest demonstration of a trap (both sending and receiving) > using the Net-SNMP (http://www.net-snmp.org) tools? Can this be done using > only Net-SNMP tools? I'm using Net-SNMP as it is cross-platform. And yes, it > is open source. ;) >
We have dell servers at work and usually install the dell open manage package. This adds the dell MIBs so we can get all kinds of info off the server via snmp. We use SuSE servers, the problem I have had with snmp is that for different versions of the net-snmp rpm i have to have a different snmpd.conf. This partly due to the open manage stuff. To get open manage to work you have to enable "smuxpeer". For one rpm version, the smuxpeer needs a password and you have to set the password in dell open manage. For another snmp rpm you don't need the password at all. for traps you need to enable them via the conf file, which will be: trapsink 10.1.1.1 public The man page says you should also use: trapcommunity STRING defines the default community string to be used when sending traps. Note that this directive must be used prior to any community-based trap destination directives that need to use it. trapsink HOST [COMMUNITY [PORT]] However, our config doesn't use trapcommunity. This may be part of something open manage does for us. But this sends traps to our open manage monitor server. Now we just need someone to monitor that server! Hope this helps, let me know if I can do anything else. b _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
