can nagios display unknown traps sent to it?

[benhank]

did you know that everything that is impossible is possible?

I just wanted to know if I can have nagios display and report unknown traps sent to it.

[sreinhardt]

yes, in the sense that nagios does not interpret the trap, snmptt is what determines if it is known or unknown. There should be a setting in snmptt.ini on exec-ing unknown traps. Setting this to something similar to how other traps are exec-ed in snmptt.conf should do this for you, basically using snmptraphandler.py with some basic arguments. I will say that I have not done this, so it will be a bit of a learning process for us both. I do have a way to test and validate this on my home system once I'm done with my current task. I would note that this may lead to quite a few items in unconfigured objects if not handled carefully.

[benhank]

that was alot of werds. I fell apart after "ye".. JK thanks man I will report my findings.


btw, off the top off your head, have you ever seen this:?

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[root@lkennagiost01 ~]# service snmpd restart
Stopping snmpd:                                            [FAILED]
[root@lkennagiost01 ~]# service snmptt restart
Stopping snmptt:                                           [  OK  ]
Starting snmptt: PID file: /var/run/snmptt.pid
                                                           [  OK  ]
[root@lkennagiost01 ~]# service snmptrapd restart
Stopping snmptrapd:                                        [FAILED]

no changed made to the server...

Never mind. I just got medieval on em... wiped them out and replaced them (reinstalled).

[slansing]

Oh.. well then, I guess that is one way to do it, I was going to have you call the init script manually and see if it bails with more verbose output.

[benhank]

yeah but i did a google search, and got a lot of replies saying that there is a bug in the new snmp... so the "screw that!" protocol was invoked.

[slansing]

Hahaha, but what do you mean by the "new snmp?" It may be helpful if you link one of the pages you read.