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

Jason Hildreth - NOAA Federal jason.hildreth at noaa.gov
Tue Sep 18 21:33:28 CEST 2018


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 <david.baldwin at ausport.gov.au
> 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 <bferrell at baywinds.org
> >> <mailto:bferrell at baywinds.org>> 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
> >> <jason.hildreth at noaa.gov <mailto:jason.hildreth at noaa.gov>
> >> <mailto:jason.hildreth at noaa.gov <mailto:jason.hildreth at noaa.gov>>>
> >>     >     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
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