Handling SNMP traps with Hobbit

Hi andy,

I am using snmptt also but set it up using the mysql web page and then have a ext script to test if any unacknowledged events are on the web page. My primary reason for doing it this way was that I was not able to make sure that all traps were recorded. How do you make sure that 2 consecutive traps from the same device are recorded both and not only the last ?

Also you mention the "problem" with classification. This has rased som issues in my organisation, because some server people did not agree on a specific alert levels (ie CRITICAL etc). Do you edit this by hand ?

Best regards,
Thomas

FARRIOR, Andy skrev:

My technicians have been bugging me about wanting to receive SNMP traps from various equipment.

The only references to SNMP traps and Hobbit I could find were forwarding Hobbit events as SNMP traps to

NMS servers like OpenView or something.

I don't have either; so I've tried to implement SNMP trap handling with Hobbit using an external perl script, snmptrapd, SNMPTT, and SEC.

I've put my configuration notes here if you're interested:

http://cerebro.victoriacollege.edu/hobbit-trap.html

If you find something grossly wrong, let me know.

thanks,

andy