On Jan 7, 2009, at 12.14 , Onion, Sean wrote:

> I’m looking to set up a centralized trap destination that will  
> forward to the appropriate Spectrum landscapes in DSS.  I’ve heard  
> from a CA rep that eHealth Trap Exploder is the preferred solution  
> over Trap Director.
>
> Does anyone have experience with these solutions or an alternative?
>
> What are the limitations?  Can it handle trap storms?  Can it  
> forward to different versions of Spectrum or eHealth?

We've been using TrapExploder for several years, and it is pretty  
flexible and robust.  It allows for filtering, logging, and local  
script execution, which is all very helpful when using traps outside  
of Spectrum or when adding new trap support to Spectrum.  You can  
forward to any port on any host.  It handles trap storms fine.  The  
biggest issue that I have with it is that it is limited to snmp v1  
only.  We have switched entirely to snmp v3 polling, and we would like  
to move to v3 traps/informs, but we would have to find a replacement  
for TrapExploder first.  There are apparently no plans to add v3  
support for TrapExploder.


Mathias Wegner
ISC Networking
University of Pennsylvania
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