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

[Bruce Ferrell]

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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