oops -- my bad. Gotta stop going to those liquid lunches;-) You're right that WUG will handle incoming traps. I'm not so sure keying on incoming traps is the best solution though. If he sets trap notification to it's default (global) then he's sending a bunch of useless traffic on the network. This may or may not be a problem on his network -- I don't know how many nodes we're talking about or how well the network is designed.
If he sets the envmon variable to "supply" then the box will only send supply triggered traps. This is good except he has to touch every box with this config and he has to create an associated alert config on the WUG box -- seems like double duty. I'm a big fan of the KISS principle and I like to keep my switch / router configs as minimal as possible -- running snmp ACL's is enough for me. for what it's worth... kj At 01:36 PM 9/18/2002 -0600, you wrote: >WUG can parse incoming traps. You can create an alert so that when you get >the specific trap (i.e. power failure) it fires the alert. (you will need >the MIB name or number. Under Alerts|Edit Notification, you click the >check box On SNMP Trap and then fill in the Trap ID or name. If you use >the name, you will need to make sure you have compiled the proper Cisco MIB >in. > >We use it on a number of things, and it works well. > >Jon Saunders >SECPA > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Keith Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 12:24 PM >Subject: Re: [WhatsUp Forum] Question about alerting via SNMP Traps > > > > WUG can't parse incoming traps -- instead, you would need to create a > > custom service in WUG that monitors the proper OID for whatever event you > > want to monitor. Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
