RE: [WhatsUp Forum] SNMP Traps

[Goran Jovanovic]

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Scott,   I would love to get any scripts that you will share. I am all about using what other people have done and not recreating the wheel.   Thank you            Goran Jovanovic      The LAN Shoppe      2345 Yonge Street, Suite 302      Toronto, Ontario M4P 2E5      Phone: (416) 440-1167 x-2113      Cell: (416) 931-0688      E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]     -----Original Message----- From: Scott Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:12 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] SNMP Traps   There several parts involved with getting SNMP installed / configured on a local server, weather it's MS Windows, or Novell, etc...   SNMP can be configured to send TRAP alerts to WhatsUp for just about any condition within the operating systems control.  Specialized hardware that is not controlled directly by the OS, such as RAID controllers or redundant power supplies etc..., will generally have a driver or application agent that includes some management configuration tools.  Some of these send email alerts directly, some use SNMP TRAPs, others give the option to write events to the servers log files, and many let you determine any or all methods if you want.   Compaq can use the Insight Management Agents to pass alerts via SNMP.  HP uses their server agents or toptools agents to do the same thing.  Dell has management agents too.  Adaptec uses Storage Manager Pro to configure RAID alert levels that can use SNMP or it writes to an NT log, either of which can be monitored by WUG.   We use SNMP TRAPs very heavily and on occasion you may have to devise creative work arounds to get a particular event to be recognized by WhatsUp.  Once this is done, creating a matching event to trigger a notification is relatively easy.  I have put together a few different install scripts and the documentation which we use on all of our monitored servers.  Let me know if you want any of these to try out or to use as some examples.  I'll see if I can put together something that's a bit more concise and not so vague.             Scott Taylor         Westat, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: Goran Jovanovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 9:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] SNMP Traps Hi all,   I just started to evaluate WUG today. Figured out the linked maps and got that working.   Now my big question is this. I want to receive SNMP traps from various devices (such as Compaq servers). These traps will tell me when a power supply fails of if a drive in an array fails etc (hardware stuff). I set another server to sent traps and I know that it sent them but I cannot get WUG to display anything regarding the SNMP trap. I got my server on the map and it is being polled via ICMP (is green) and I went into properties and under events selected Any SNMP trap (I even went in and found the Compaq Power Supply Failure trap). But when I pull the power on one of the power supplies nothing is shown on the map. My triangle in the top left corner is still there and still white.   I complied the Compaq MIBs into the system so I can see all the traps.   Any ideas on what I am missing?   Also based on what I am seeing I am going to have to go into each server and associate the traps I want to be displayed / trapped for each server. Is that correct?   Thanks all.            Goran Jovanovic      The LAN Shoppe      2345 Yonge Street, Suite 302      Toronto, Ontario M4P 2E5      Phone: (416) 440-1167 x-2113      Cell: (416) 931-0688      E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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