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Hi,

I am trying to monitor IBM V7000 through SNMP as part of it i need to specify my SNMP server IP address to recive event logs.

Now I am thinking if i need to monitor with nagios i need to make nagios as SNMP server, How do i make this ?

Thanks,
Srikanth.

Are you talking about using SNMP Traps? If so, this doc should be all you need:

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ios_XI.pdf

Hi,

I am trying to be able to send eventlog to nagios server can i achive that by doing SNMP traps ?

You can do it via traps, but I was more trying to ask if you wanted to. The doc will explain how to set up Nagios XI to receive traps, but if you just want to use active checks for SNMP you can do that with just the plugin. We have a SNMP wizard for just such a thing.

I installed SNMP trap as shown in the document and configured with SNMP traps wizard.

No it would always remain on " Waiting for trap "

By chance do you have anything listed under Admin -> Unconfigured Objects ?

This can happen if the hostname you have configured in Nagios XI is different than the sending server.

Also, are the traps showing if you run the following from the command line If so, you likely have not added the necessary MIBs for Nagios to recognize the traps it is receiving.

I have few other hosts listed in unconfigured objects but not the host or services of this server

/var/log/snmptt/snmpttunknown.log does not exist. and how do i add MIBs

srikanth.kallu wrote: /var/log/snmptt/snmpttunknown.log does not exist. and how do i add MIBs

That is strange, are you sure you followed this doc and setup snmptt?
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ios_XI.pdf

Page 2 of the doc covers adding the MIBs and a command that needs to run to add the MIB's information to the snmptt.conf file

From where do MIB file ?

I am trying to monitor a log file are there any specific MIBs for this ?

Ok, I think you misunderstand how Traps work..

Your Server / Device will need to know how to send what you are expecting to a host (in our case Nagios XI) and will have MIB file that are used to explain what it is sending. These file you would get from the vendor of the hardware.