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How do I configure SNMP Traps in Nagios?

Ive imported the MIB, set up the trap listener….but….

Have you setup snmptt.conf to use a trap handler to send the traps to Nagios for processing? Have you setup and passive checks in Nagios for it? http://askaralikhan.blogspot.com/2010/1 ... agios.html is outdated but has some good information. For example, you can use the trap handler snmptraphandling.py found in http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/supp ... ns.tar.bz2 instead of what they use. The article also covers setting up a passive check.

There is some information on:
http://mona.deltics.info/snmptrapping/

Thanks for the additional link, @rhassing.

@riahc3, let us know if you have any further questions for us

Well, the packages in the outdated tutorial are already here: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... ios_XI.pdf so....

Anyways…

This is for CentOS 5.....holy shit. Im mean thats old. I cant find the snmptrapd.options file. Seeing as this is a production server, I cant play around and test.

Im not sure why Nagios makes this so difficult to setup.

I use SNMPv3 so I cant disable authorization.

There is a lot outdated in this tutorial...sorry.

It shouldn't matter the OS release is in the instructions, the commands should be the same.
Do you have a specific issue you need help on?
Is this a better tutorial?
https://paulgporter.net/2013/09/16/nagios-snmp-traps/