[Xymon] SNMP Traps - We are converting to Xymon from BB

[Bruce Ferrell]

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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>     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     From: Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal <jason.hildreth at noaa.gov <mailto:jason.hildreth at noaa.gov>>
>     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
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>     ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     From: Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>>
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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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