Solarwinds SYSlog

[techcontroller]

I work on a large network, using slightly outdated equipment(2980's, 2924's, 3550's). My experience is very basic, but I have enough understanding of the equipment to do my job, so bear with me here if I start making no sense. Thnx

Ok, so I am trying to install another SYSlog server. I have the IP of the server, and it is set in logging to all the switches that I am using for testing to get it up and running. I have a total of 6 switches, out of 300 devices to that are set up to log to this new server. However, I can't get the traps to the new server. The current server still gets them, but I am getting nothing on the new server.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Vince

 

[vipergg]

Did you repoint the switches on where you want the snmp traps sent , for instance on a 2948 it would be "set snmp trap <ip address> <community string> . Where you log to and where you send snmp traps are 2 different things , you have to specify for both in all your switches.

 

[techcontroller]

Thank you. I knew that there was something more to it, but I couldn't figure out what it was. I appreciate the help.

 

[techcontroller]

Okay, I double checked all 6 six switches, and prior to my post, I had already sent the SNMP traps to the server, as well as logging.

 

[vipergg]

Did the community string match exactly in the switch and the syslog server ??? Thats about the only thing I can think besides that ?

 

[techcontroller]

I went and checked all of the switches that I am using for testing. They all have the appropriate community strings.

I have tried just about everything that I can aside from contacting Cisco and getting their help. At some point today I will reconfigure the logging and traps and see if that doesn't work.

Thank you all for your help, any other advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[PalmTest]

How about checking the ACL's on the switches.
All management traffic (SNMP, Telnet, SysLog) is regulated by ACL's so I exactly know who is receiving what concering Management of my switches.

 

[techcontroller]

Well, I restarted my server, and like magic, I started recieving messages. I am not sure what it was, but it now decided it wanted to work.

PalmTest, the ACL's were one of the first things I checked. We always pass our managment VLANs so that we don't have to go from building to building everytime something goes wrong, we can do it from our office.

I apprecaite the help y'all have given me. Thanx much!!

Vince