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#Linux snmp trap receiver vmware appliance install
#Linux snmp trap receiver vmware appliance code

# OPTIONS="-Lsd -p /var/run/snmptrapd.pid" # traphandle SNMPv2-MIB::coldStart /usr/bin/bin/my_great_script coldĪnd in /etc/sysconfig/snmptrapd: # snmptrapd command line options # No traps are handled by default, you must edit this file! In /etc/snmp/nf: # Example configuration file for snmptrapd

#Linux snmp trap receiver vmware appliance install

sudo yum install -y net-snmp net-snmp-utils We start by making sure Net-SNMP is installed. I'll use my CentOS 6.2 box as a guinea pig here.

Configure Splunk to be able to monitor snmptrapd's log file and see it get indexed.

Make a server able to send ANY trap successfully to snmptrapd.

Configure snmptrapd to receive traps and write them to a logfile.So given the decision to use the native snmptrapd then our list of steps gets refined a little. MIBS are suddenly orders of magnitude easier to deal with, because we're not fooling with the obtuse (or is it abstruse?) MIB format that pySNMP uses.Similar to syslog, the snmptrapd daemon will need to be restarted far less often than Splunk and it will restart orders of magnitude faster. It minimizes the possibility of missing SNMP traps due to Splunk restarts.It makes debugging easier, because I have a file that traps should land in - regardless of whether Splunk is properly configured to process that file or not.That is, Splunk does not have to run as root, and there is no iptables port redirection magic required in order to map packets arriving at 162 to a higher port.

#Linux snmp trap receiver vmware appliance code

Limits the amount of code that must run as root to support the "standard" UDP port of 162.

It separates the concerns of listening on the socket from indexing the data.

Given the options, I would personally choose to run snmptrapd for the following reasons.

Make a server able to send traps based on a thresholdįor #1, you can choose to use the native snmptrapd on the host running Splunk, or you can choose to use the modular input.

Make a server able to send ANY trap successfully to Splunk (and see it get indexed).

Make Splunk able to receive a trap and index it.

Let's start out by separating your concerns and working out a logical sequence of first principles to build on.