Receiving SNMP Traps

[rbutz]

Hi all,

I guess I've got a quite simple question but I didn't find the answer anywhere:

when a management station receives a trap - where will it be stored? Is it in a mib or in a log file?

The reason why I should know that is that my CEO wants me to collect all SNMP traps in a text or log file. I'm working with SUSE 9.3 with net-snmp and ethereal installed. If the traps are not stored in a file - is there any possibility to catch the traps and forward them to a file?

Many thanks!
Rainer

 

[lgarner]

Depends on the management station. If you're just using net-snmp's snmptrapd daemon, it'll go into syslog by default. I use syslog-ng and have a filter like this:

filter f_snmptrap {
program(snmptrapd.*);
};

which puts it in /var/log/snmptrapd.

If you have "real" management station, then that software will deal with the traps.