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SNMP Traps - We are converting to Xymon from BB

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list Jason Hildreth - Noaa Federal · Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:30:34 -0400 ·
Question is more related to Big Brother in our interim before we move to
Xymon....

If anyone can help (since BB has been dead for a while) it would be
appreciated.

We have SNMP traps setup to be received in our Big Brother environment but
instead of sending the trap back to itself for processing it is sending the
data to the IP of the other Big Brother (now Xymon) system.  We want to
keep the SNMP traps on the Big Brother system until we put the xymon system
in place completely.  Does anyone know why it is sending to a different IP
than the IP of the system the SNMP trap was received on...and where that is
set in order to make this stop...

Thanks

-- 

Jason Hildreth

Middleware, Programming, Systems Administrator

Infrastructure and Web Services Branch

NCEP Central Operations
list Greg Hubbard · Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:45:12 -0500 ·
Hi Jason,

I think you need to provide some more information.  What are you using in
BB to catch, decode, and react to the traps?  How is it configured?

Greg Hubbard

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:37 AM Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal via Xymon <
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quoted from Jason Hildreth - Noaa Federal
Question is more related to Big Brother in our interim before we move to
Xymon....

If anyone can help (since BB has been dead for a while) it would be
appreciated.

We have SNMP traps setup to be received in our Big Brother environment but
instead of sending the trap back to itself for processing it is sending the
data to the IP of the other Big Brother (now Xymon) system.  We want to
keep the SNMP traps on the Big Brother system until we put the xymon system
in place completely.  Does anyone know why it is sending to a different IP
than the IP of the system the SNMP trap was received on...and where that is
set in order to make this stop...

Thanks

--

Jason Hildreth

Middleware, Programming, Systems Administrator

Infrastructure and Web Services Branch

NCEP Central Operations


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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:30:34 -0400
Subject: [Xymon] SNMP Traps - We are converting to Xymon from BB

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list Jason Hildreth - Noaa Federal · Wed, 12 Sep 2018 13:05:03 -0400 ·
Greg...

I am using the built in BB trap handler.  When a trap is received by BB it
is packaged and stored in the <BBHOME>/var/trap location.  At that point
the trap is sent by BB to "itself" and this is where I am confused as to
what is happening.

We have two BBDISPLAY systems and I we are trying to send traps to both.  I
sent a test trap to the machine called BBTG2 via its IP address.  When I do
a strace on the bbdtrap process that is running it shows that the trap is
being sent to the BBTG1 system instead of "itself" which is the BBTG2
system.  I think that this process may be using the bb-hosts file like a
/etc/hosts file where it is looking for the first line and assuming that is
the local system.  Since BBTG1 and 2 use the same bb-hosts file the top
system in the list is the BBTG1 system on both systems.  At this point all
traps are being sent to the BBTG1 system.  Since I can't see the actual
code for bbdtrap and/or the bbtrap-handler process as they are both BINARY
files it is kind of hard to determine how the program works internally.

 Additionally, the only configuration file for the trap handling is called
snmptrapd.conf which states only to use bbtrap-handler and send the trap to
a tmp file on the system.  There are no other configuration files for the
SNMP trap handling on the Big Brother system.

Thanks
Jason
quoted from Greg Hubbard

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 12:45 PM, Greg Hubbard <user-435e16ecfd6a@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi Jason,

I think you need to provide some more information.  What are you using in
BB to catch, decode, and react to the traps?  How is it configured?

Greg Hubbard

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:37 AM Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal via Xymon <
xymon at xymon.com> wrote:
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:30:34 -0400
Subject: SNMP Traps - We are converting to Xymon from BB
Question is more related to Big Brother in our interim before we move to
Xymon....

If anyone can help (since BB has been dead for a while) it would be
appreciated.

We have SNMP traps setup to be received in our Big Brother environment
but instead of sending the trap back to itself for processing it is sending
the data to the IP of the other Big Brother (now Xymon) system.  We want to
keep the SNMP traps on the Big Brother system until we put the xymon system
in place completely.  Does anyone know why it is sending to a different IP
than the IP of the system the SNMP trap was received on...and where that is
set in order to make this stop...

Thanks

--

Jason Hildreth

Middleware, Programming, Systems Administrator

Infrastructure and Web Services Branch

NCEP Central Operations


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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:30:34 -0400
Subject: [Xymon] SNMP Traps - We are converting to Xymon from BB

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list Bruce Ferrell · Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:44:05 -0700 ·
Jason,

I'm a long time BB/Xymon user.  The original FOSS BB, had no trap handler.  I see from poking google, the professional version of BB did/does have one:

http://bb.etermar.pt/bb/skins/eng/help/help/Receiving_SNMP_traps.htm

I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong but I don't think xymon has a native one either, but I remembered this is from the days of the FOSS BB:

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

And you may or may not already know about xymonton... It seems to have copies of all the stuff deadcat used to have for BB.

https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php

I usually have to tweak the stuff from xymonton to get it to work right, but it's been extremely useful

And just on the general topic of SNMP: After 30 years messing with networks, I have discovered that SNMP is NOT always what I expect.  Different implementations some times return 
different results.  Most of my systems are linux with net-snmp.  I have a few, that I recently have begun to monitor, that are OS X (various revisions) with net-snmp.  The data 
returned isn't always the same as my linux boxen.  Again, I've had to fiddle a bit to find the OIDs for what I'm trying to watch. Same deal for Cisco gear.... And THAT varies from 
model to model! Devmon is what I've been using for that.

Regards,
Bruce Ferrell
quoted from Greg Hubbard

On 9/12/18 9:45 AM, Greg Hubbard wrote:
Hi Jason,

I think you need to provide some more information.  What are you using in BB to catch, decode, and react to the traps? How is it configured?

Greg Hubbard

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:37 AM Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> wrote:


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    Cc:
    Bcc:
    Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:30:34 -0400
    Subject: SNMP Traps - We are converting to Xymon from BB
    Question is more related to Big Brother in our interim before we move to Xymon....

    If anyone can help (since BB has been dead for a while) it would be appreciated.

    We have SNMP traps setup to be received in our Big Brother environment but instead of sending the trap back to itself for processing it is sending the data to the IP of the
    other Big Brother (now Xymon) system.  We want to keep the SNMP traps on the Big Brother system until we put the xymon system in place completely.  Does anyone know why it is
    sending to a different IP than the IP of the system the SNMP trap was received on...and where that is set in order to make this stop...

    Thanks

    -- 

    Jason Hildreth

    Middleware, Programming, Systems Administrator

    Infrastructure and Web Services Branch

    NCEP Central Operations


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    Cc:
    Bcc:
    Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:30:34 -0400
    Subject: [Xymon] SNMP Traps - We are converting to Xymon from BB
    

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list Galen Johnson · Wed, 12 Sep 2018 21:54:10 -0400 ·
Unfortunately, I was only able to rescue some bits of deadcat,  I was
hoping to be able to save more but it didn't pan out and I have no idea
what Dell did with that content.  Devmon is likely the best option for
now.  There is a section for Devmon on Xymonton but it is, sadly, barren.
 IIRC, Henrik was looking to add SMTP traps to Xymon 5 but that has not yet
surfaced outside of mentions in the mailing list archives.

=G=
quoted from Bruce Ferrell

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 9:16 PM Bruce Ferrell <user-24fbf1912cfe@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Jason,

I'm a long time BB/Xymon user.  The original FOSS BB, had no trap
handler.  I see from poking google, the professional version of BB did/does
have one:

http://bb.etermar.pt/bb/skins/eng/help/help/Receiving_SNMP_traps.htm

I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong but I don't think xymon has a
native one either, but I remembered this is from the days of the FOSS BB:

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

And you may or may not already know about xymonton... It seems to have
copies of all the stuff deadcat used to have for BB.

https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php

I usually have to tweak the stuff from xymonton to get it to work right,
but it's been extremely useful

And just on the general topic of SNMP: After 30 years messing with
networks, I have discovered that SNMP is NOT always what I expect.
Different implementations some times return
different results.  Most of my systems are linux with net-snmp.  I have a
few, that I recently have begun to monitor, that are OS X (various
revisions) with net-snmp.  The data
returned isn't always the same as my linux boxen.  Again, I've had to
fiddle a bit to find the OIDs for what I'm trying to watch. Same deal for
Cisco gear.... And THAT varies from
model to model! Devmon is what I've been using for that.

Regards,
Bruce Ferrell

On 9/12/18 9:45 AM, Greg Hubbard wrote:
Hi Jason,

I think you need to provide some more information.  What are you using
in BB to catch, decode, and react to the traps? How is it configured?

Greg Hubbard

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:37 AM Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal via Xymon
<xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>> wrote:

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    From: Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal <user-5695a1fe1593@xymon.invalid
    To: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
    Cc:
    Bcc:
    Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:30:34 -0400
    Subject: SNMP Traps - We are converting to Xymon from BB
    Question is more related to Big Brother in our interim before we
move to Xymon....

    If anyone can help (since BB has been dead for a while) it would be
appreciated.

    We have SNMP traps setup to be received in our Big Brother
environment but instead of sending the trap back to itself for processing
it is sending the data to the IP of the
    other Big Brother (now Xymon) system.  We want to keep the SNMP
traps on the Big Brother system until we put the xymon system in place
completely.  Does anyone know why it is
    sending to a different IP than the IP of the system the SNMP trap
was received on...and where that is set in order to make this stop...

    Thanks

    --

    Jason Hildreth

    Middleware, Programming, Systems Administrator

    Infrastructure and Web Services Branch

    NCEP Central Operations


    ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    From: Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com
<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>
    To: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
    Cc:
    Bcc:
    Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:30:34 -0400
    Subject: [Xymon] SNMP Traps - We are converting to Xymon from BB
    

--
Disclaimer:  1) all opinions are my own, 2) I may be completely wrong,
3) my advice is worth at least as much as what you are paying for it, or
your money cheerfully refunded.
list Bruce Ferrell · Wed, 12 Sep 2018 19:40:22 -0700 ·
Galen,

I was pretty familiar with deadcat. I'd say you got the lions share of what was useful.

Devmon itself is kind of barren.  As I mentioned, with devmon, I've been able to identify SNMP differences between platforms and something that *looks* like a memory leak. I have 
to kill devmon periodically and restart it to eliminate the memory it comes to use.  I haven't really had time to chase that down though.

Regards,

Bruce Ferrell
quoted from Galen Johnson


On 9/12/18 6:54 PM, Galen Johnson wrote:
Unfortunately, I was only able to rescue some bits of deadcat,  I was hoping to be able to save more but it didn't pan out and I have no idea what Dell did with that content. 
Devmon is likely the best option for now.  There is a section for Devmon on Xymonton but it is, sadly, barren.   IIRC, Henrik was looking to add SMTP traps to Xymon 5 but that 
has not yet surfaced outside of mentions in the mailing list archives.

=G=

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 9:16 PM Bruce Ferrell <user-24fbf1912cfe@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-24fbf1912cfe@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    Jason,

    I'm a long time BB/Xymon user.  The original FOSS BB, had no trap handler.  I see from poking google, the professional version of BB did/does have one:

    http://bb.etermar.pt/bb/skins/eng/help/help/Receiving_SNMP_traps.htm

    I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong but I don't think xymon has a native one either, but I remembered this is from the days of the FOSS BB:

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

    And you may or may not already know about xymonton... It seems to have copies of all the stuff deadcat used to have for BB.

    https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php

    I usually have to tweak the stuff from xymonton to get it to work right, but it's been extremely useful

    And just on the general topic of SNMP: After 30 years messing with networks, I have discovered that SNMP is NOT always what I expect.  Different implementations some times
    return
    different results.  Most of my systems are linux with net-snmp.  I have a few, that I recently have begun to monitor, that are OS X (various revisions) with net-snmp.  The data
    returned isn't always the same as my linux boxen.  Again, I've had to fiddle a bit to find the OIDs for what I'm trying to watch. Same deal for Cisco gear.... And THAT varies
    from
    model to model! Devmon is what I've been using for that.

    Regards,
    Bruce Ferrell

    On 9/12/18 9:45 AM, Greg Hubbard wrote:
Hi Jason,

I think you need to provide some more information.  What are you using in BB to catch, decode, and react to the traps? How is it configured?

Greg Hubbard

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:37 AM Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> <mailto:xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>> wrote:


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     To: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> <mailto:xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>
     Cc:
     Bcc:
     Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:30:34 -0400
     Subject: SNMP Traps - We are converting to Xymon from BB
     Question is more related to Big Brother in our interim before we move to Xymon....

     If anyone can help (since BB has been dead for a while) it would be appreciated.

     We have SNMP traps setup to be received in our Big Brother environment but instead of sending the trap back to itself for processing it is sending the data to the IP of the
     other Big Brother (now Xymon) system.  We want to keep the SNMP traps on the Big Brother system until we put the xymon system in place completely.  Does anyone know why
    it is
     sending to a different IP than the IP of the system the SNMP trap was received on...and where that is set in order to make this stop...

     Thanks

     --

     Jason Hildreth

     Middleware, Programming, Systems Administrator

     Infrastructure and Web Services Branch

     NCEP Central Operations


     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
     From: Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> <mailto:xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>>
     To: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> <mailto:xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>
     Cc:
     Bcc:
     Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:30:34 -0400
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list David Baldwin · Thu, 13 Sep 2018 16:17:07 +1000 ·
I've been using this method for quite a few years.

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

A lot of moving parts and you need to track down the MIBs to start
creating snmptt translation tables, then hand tweak as various unknown
traps appear, but like anything you can get it working how you want if
you persist long enough.

David.
quoted from Bruce Ferrell
Galen,

I was pretty familiar with deadcat. I'd say you got the lions share of
what was useful.

Devmon itself is kind of barren.  As I mentioned, with devmon, I've
been able to identify SNMP differences between platforms and something
that *looks* like a memory leak. I have to kill devmon periodically
and restart it to eliminate the memory it comes to use.  I haven't
really had time to chase that down though.

Regards,

Bruce Ferrell


On 9/12/18 6:54 PM, Galen Johnson wrote:
Unfortunately, I was only able to rescue some bits of deadcat,  I was
hoping to be able to save more but it didn't pan out and I have no
idea what Dell did with that content. Devmon is likely the best
option for now.  There is a section for Devmon on Xymonton but it is,
sadly, barren.   IIRC, Henrik was looking to add SMTP traps to Xymon
5 but that has not yet surfaced outside of mentions in the mailing
list archives.

=G=

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 9:16 PM Bruce Ferrell <user-24fbf1912cfe@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-24fbf1912cfe@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    Jason,

    I'm a long time BB/Xymon user.  The original FOSS BB, had no trap
handler.  I see from poking google, the professional version of BB
did/does have one:

    http://bb.etermar.pt/bb/skins/eng/help/help/Receiving_SNMP_traps.htm

    I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong but I don't think xymon
has a native one either, but I remembered this is from the days of
the FOSS BB:

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

    And you may or may not already know about xymonton... It seems to
have copies of all the stuff deadcat used to have for BB.

    https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php

    I usually have to tweak the stuff from xymonton to get it to work
right, but it's been extremely useful

    And just on the general topic of SNMP: After 30 years messing
with networks, I have discovered that SNMP is NOT always what I
expect.  Different implementations some times
    return
    different results.  Most of my systems are linux with net-snmp. 
I have a few, that I recently have begun to monitor, that are OS X
(various revisions) with net-snmp.  The data
    returned isn't always the same as my linux boxen.  Again, I've
had to fiddle a bit to find the OIDs for what I'm trying to watch.
Same deal for Cisco gear.... And THAT varies
    from
    model to model! Devmon is what I've been using for that.

    Regards,
    Bruce Ferrell

    On 9/12/18 9:45 AM, Greg Hubbard wrote:
    > Hi Jason,
    >
    > I think you need to provide some more information.  What are
you using in BB to catch, decode, and react to the traps? How is it
configured?
    >
    > Greg Hubbard
    >
    > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:37 AM Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal
via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
<mailto:xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>> wrote:
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    >     From: Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal
<user-5695a1fe1593@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-5695a1fe1593@xymon.invalid>
    >     To: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
<mailto:xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>
    >     Cc:
    >     Bcc:
    >     Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:30:34 -0400
    >     Subject: SNMP Traps - We are converting to Xymon from BB
    >     Question is more related to Big Brother in our interim
before we move to Xymon....
    >
    >     If anyone can help (since BB has been dead for a while) it
would be appreciated.
    >
    >     We have SNMP traps setup to be received in our Big Brother
environment but instead of sending the trap back to itself for
processing it is sending the data to the IP of the
    >     other Big Brother (now Xymon) system.  We want to keep the
SNMP traps on the Big Brother system until we put the xymon system in
place completely.  Does anyone know why
    it is
    >     sending to a different IP than the IP of the system the
SNMP trap was received on...and where that is set in order to make
this stop...
    >
    >     Thanks
    >
    >     --
    >
    >     Jason Hildreth
    >
    >     Middleware, Programming, Systems Administrator
    >
    >     Infrastructure and Web Services Branch
    >
    >     NCEP Central Operations
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
    >     From: Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal via Xymon
<xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> <mailto:xymon at xymon.com
<mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>>
    >     To: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
<mailto:xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>
    >     Cc:
    >     Bcc:
    >     Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:30:34 -0400
    >     Subject: [Xymon] SNMP Traps - We are converting to Xymon
from BB
    >     
    >
    >
    >
    > --
    > Disclaimer:  1) all opinions are my own, 2) I may be completely
wrong, 3) my advice is worth at least as much as what you are paying
for it, or your money cheerfully refunded.
    >
    > 


    
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list Jason Hildreth - Noaa Federal · Tue, 18 Sep 2018 15:33:28 -0400 ·
Ok so I figured out how this thing is configured with BB...

You have to have the BBDISPLAY system you want to send to as the first
BBDISPLAY in the BB-HOSTS file on the system.  With us since we have two we
have to put whatever system we are on first in the list.  restart the BB
service and it works. Then when you send a trap to each server it will send
to both displays...otherwise it will send only to one if you have the same
BB-HOSTS on each system.

Jason

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 2:17 AM, David Baldwin <user-cbbf693f2c89@xymon.invalid
quoted from David Baldwin
wrote:
I've been using this method for quite a few years.

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

A lot of moving parts and you need to track down the MIBs to start
creating snmptt translation tables, then hand tweak as various unknown
traps appear, but like anything you can get it working how you want if
you persist long enough.

David.
Galen,

I was pretty familiar with deadcat. I'd say you got the lions share of
what was useful.

Devmon itself is kind of barren.  As I mentioned, with devmon, I've
been able to identify SNMP differences between platforms and something
that *looks* like a memory leak. I have to kill devmon periodically
and restart it to eliminate the memory it comes to use.  I haven't
really had time to chase that down though.

Regards,

Bruce Ferrell


On 9/12/18 6:54 PM, Galen Johnson wrote:
Unfortunately, I was only able to rescue some bits of deadcat,  I was
hoping to be able to save more but it didn't pan out and I have no
idea what Dell did with that content. Devmon is likely the best
option for now.  There is a section for Devmon on Xymonton but it is,
sadly, barren.   IIRC, Henrik was looking to add SMTP traps to Xymon
5 but that has not yet surfaced outside of mentions in the mailing
list archives.

=G=

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 9:16 PM Bruce Ferrell <user-24fbf1912cfe@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-24fbf1912cfe@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    Jason,

    I'm a long time BB/Xymon user.  The original FOSS BB, had no trap
handler.  I see from poking google, the professional version of BB
did/does have one:

    http://bb.etermar.pt/bb/skins/eng/help/help/Receiving_SNMP_
traps.htm
quoted from David Baldwin

    I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong but I don't think xymon
has a native one either, but I remembered this is from the days of
the FOSS BB:

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

    And you may or may not already know about xymonton... It seems to
have copies of all the stuff deadcat used to have for BB.

    https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php

    I usually have to tweak the stuff from xymonton to get it to work
right, but it's been extremely useful

    And just on the general topic of SNMP: After 30 years messing
with networks, I have discovered that SNMP is NOT always what I
expect.  Different implementations some times
    return
    different results.  Most of my systems are linux with net-snmp.
I have a few, that I recently have begun to monitor, that are OS X
(various revisions) with net-snmp.  The data
    returned isn't always the same as my linux boxen.  Again, I've
had to fiddle a bit to find the OIDs for what I'm trying to watch.
Same deal for Cisco gear.... And THAT varies
    from
    model to model! Devmon is what I've been using for that.

    Regards,
    Bruce Ferrell

    On 9/12/18 9:45 AM, Greg Hubbard wrote:
Hi Jason,

I think you need to provide some more information.  What are
you using in BB to catch, decode, and react to the traps? How is it
configured?

Greg Hubbard

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 10:37 AM Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal
via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
<mailto:xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>> wrote:

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    From: Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal
<user-5695a1fe1593@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-5695a1fe1593@xymon.invalid>
    To: xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
<mailto:xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>
    Cc:
    Bcc:
    Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:30:34 -0400
    Subject: SNMP Traps - We are converting to Xymon from BB
    Question is more related to Big Brother in our interim
before we move to Xymon....

    If anyone can help (since BB has been dead for a while) it
would be appreciated.

    We have SNMP traps setup to be received in our Big Brother
environment but instead of sending the trap back to itself for
processing it is sending the data to the IP of the
    other Big Brother (now Xymon) system.  We want to keep the
SNMP traps on the Big Brother system until we put the xymon system in
place completely.  Does anyone know why
    it is
    sending to a different IP than the IP of the system the
SNMP trap was received on...and where that is set in order to make
this stop...
    Thanks

    --

    Jason Hildreth

    Middleware, Programming, Systems Administrator

    Infrastructure and Web Services Branch

    NCEP Central Operations


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    Cc:
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    Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:30:34 -0400
    Subject: [Xymon] SNMP Traps - We are converting to Xymon
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