[hobbit] trap column not showing up

Joshua Krause joshuakrause at triad.rr.com
Mon Sep 17 19:04:06 CEST 2007


I have my traps working now.  But my question is where to set the time  
period of how long they stay a certain color?


On Sep 14, 2007, at 7:28 PM, FARRIOR, Andy wrote:

>
> After you convert you MIBs using "snmpttconvertmib", you have to edit
> the various lines in the snmptt.conf.* files that start with "EVENT"  
> and
> change the status from "Normal" to something more useful.  For  
> instance,
> by default, all of Cisco's traps have a status of "Normal".
>
> Here's a list of common event status settings and their corresponding
> Hobbit alert color:
>
> Normal - green
> INFORMATIONAL - green
> MINOR - yellow
> WARNING - yellow
> SEVERE - red
> MAJOR - red
> CRITICAL - red
>
>
> Example:
>
> The Cisco "linkDown" traps:
>
> EVENT linkDown .1.3.6.1.2.1.11.0.2 "Status Events" Normal
> EVENT linkDown .1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.5.0.2 "Status Events" Normal
>
> If you want this to generate an alert, change "Normal" to  
> "WARNING" (for
> yellow) or "CRITICAL" (for red)
>
> The Dell and APC traps are usually predefined with the various status
> settings.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Andy
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Krause [mailto:joshuakrause at triad.rr.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 12:21 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] trap column not showing up
>
> Where do i need to tell hobbit/snmptt what traps i want to alarm out
> on?  I am a little fuzzy on where i need to configure that stuff at.
> And is there a way to customize the message that is sent to hobbit.
> Say someone logs in and does a config change.  Can I just have "Config
> Change" sent to hobbit?
>
> Thanks
> Josh
>
> **** trap column is there***
>
> On Sep 14, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
>
>> On 9/14/07, Joshua Krause <joshuakrause at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>>> I think i know why i may not be getting the trap column but needed
>>> some  insight on fixing it.  The trap is coming in with the
>>> hostname of:
>>>
>>> gsonc-spg-ups-1.eng.gbo.twcable.com
>>>
>>> But the hostname in the bb-hosts file is just:
>>>
>>> gsonc-spg-ups-1
>>>
>>> How could i go about parsing out the " .eng.gbo.twcable.com " from
>>> the
>>> hostname coming across in the trap?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Josh
>>>
>>> On Sep 14, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Joshua Krause wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am having an issue with getting the trap column to show up on a
>>>> host.  I have everything setup the way the documentation said to.
>>>> And all of my log files are logging except for the trap.log, which
>>>> looks to be generated when the hobbitlaunch.cfg is ran.  Anyone  
>>>> have
>>>> anything that might be able to help me?
>>
>> Try the "CLIENT:hostname" tag in the bb-hosts file:
>>
>>   x.x.x.x   gsonc-spg-ups-1   # CLIENT:gsonc-spg-
>> ups-1.eng.gbo.twcable.com
>>
>> I think that's supposed to take care of this situation.
>>
>> Ralph Mitchell
>>
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