Many thanks, Mike! This has been helpful.

Regards,
T.


Mike Ayers wrote:
>> From: Traiano Welcome [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 2:43 AM
>>     
>
>   
>> It looks like best option would be to script something to parse
>> snmptrapd logs and draw these stats periodically.
>>     
>
>       You can also customize the format that traps are logged in, which 
> should help make parsing easier.
>
>   
>> Looking at my snmptrapd.log, I see traps come through  with what seems
>> to identify the sending host: " [UDP: [196.21.61.1]:64714]":
>>
>> ---
>> 2009-09-03 11:33:45 <UNKNOWN> [UDP: [196.21.61.1]:64714]:
>> .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0 = Timeticks: (325635303) 37 days, 16:32:33.03
>> .1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.4.1.0 = OID: .1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.5.5
>> .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.2.1.5.0 = IpAddress: 196.26.130.34
>> .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.412.1.1.1.0 = INTEGER: ipv4(1)
>> .1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.412.1.1.2.0 = STRING:
>> ---
>>
>> Although the host specified above might be  proxy for other hosts, I'd
>> be able to differentiate knowing the location of the agents, and still
>> draw some kind of rough statistics on the 'highest sending proxy'. Does
>> this sound reasonable?
>>     
>
>       Yes, you seem to understand the key issue - forwarded traps don't have 
> an indication of their source.  One workaround for this is to use different 
> community names for each source engine, but this has its drawbacks, mostly in 
> administrative overhead.
>
>   
>>  I was hoping for builtin features :-) Anyhow, I think the best option
>> here would be to use a generic munin plugin to monitor snmptrapd.
>>     
>
>       You could also install snmpd with the host resources MIBs, if they're 
> supported on your system.
>
>
>       HTH,
>
> Mike
>
>   


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