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Re: Strange Cisco traps....

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Subject: Re: Strange Cisco traps....
From: "Owens, Blaine C" <bowens@EASTMAN.COM>
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 14:25:56 -0500
1. The enterprise ID could be either, you should not have had to do what you
did. The base enterprise ID for cisco would be 1.3.6.1.4.1.9 which may
contain a set of traps 0-x. Cisco may (and does) have additional enterprise
IDs for specific device types and/or applications, each beginning
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.x and each with their own set of traps 0-x. From your map do
Options --> Event Configuration --> Trap Customization SNMP and scroll down
to where the cisco IDs begin. It should work like this (using examples
only):

1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.29
1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9
1.3.6.1.4.1.9

The specific trap number is 1. If trapd sees 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.29 it will look
in that section of trapd.conf to format specific trap 1. If there is no
section 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.29 it will drop down to the next "nearest" match
which would be 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9 in this example and format it from there.
Finally, if there is neither a 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.29 or a 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9 it
will drop down to the 1.3.6.1.4.1.9 section to format the trap. Hope this
makes sense.

2. You can configure cisco routers to force the trap source to be whatever
interface you want. Add the following to the configuration of your cisco
routers to force the source IP address of all traps to be the loopback
interface IP:

snmp-server trap-source Loopback0

Hope this helps.

Blaine Owens
Eastman Chemical Company
Phone - (423)-229-3579
Fax - (423)-229-1188
bowens@eastman.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gord Michaels [SMTP:gord_michaels@HOTMAIL.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 1:50 PM
> To:   NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject:      Re: Strange Cisco traps....
>
> Thanks for all the responses, but....
>
> 1. I still don't know why the Enterprise ID of the trap is:
>
> 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.29
>
> instead of 1.3.6.1.4.1.9  ????
>
> 2. Also, the traps are coming from specific intefaces and not the
> interface
> which the router was discovered with (i.e. I used the loopback addresses
> for
> discovery).
>
> This is a problem because I forward this trap if it comes from a device in
> my Router_Collection. Even though the interface is a part of the device
> (router) within this collection, it does not get sent to the Events
> Display,
> i.e. Netview does not see it as being a part of the collection, the Source
> is an interface and not the router itself.
>
> Any seen this before.
>
> Any info appreciated,
>
> Gord Michaels.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: Brad Martin <bmartin@METLIFE.COM>
> >Reply-To: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
> >        <NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>
> >To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> >Subject: Re: Strange Cisco traps....
> >Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 11:52:35 -0500
> >
> >We've had a similar problem in the past with one router sending this trap
> >every
> >20 seconds. CISCO was able to identify that the dial-up modem for the
> >device was
> >hanging and didn't clear the connection. Problem would go away once the
> >modem
> >was reset.
> >
> >Brad Martin
> >MetLife
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"David Barnwell" <David.Barnwell@AEXP.COM> on 12/01/99 05:22:59 AM
> >
> >Please respond to "Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
> >NetView"
> >       <NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>
> >
> >To:   NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> >cc:    (bcc: Brad Martin/Bsg/MetLife/US)
> >Subject:  Re: Strange Cisco traps....
> >
> >
> >
> >I find the tcp connect close very useful as it enables you to know when
> >someone has logged out of a Cisco router/switch and implement some change
> >controll as a result.  I then have an associated script with this trap
> >which
> >pulls the config from the device in question and compares to a previsouly
> >active configuration for the device to see if any changes have occured,
> >saving
> >the new config it necessary.  Cisco works 2000 provides some of this
> >automation automatically but CiscoWorks 4 didnt hence the scripting !
> >
> >Cheers...db
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >From:   waddle1%US.IBM.COM@Internet on 30/11/99 17:27 MST
> >To:     NV-L%UCSBVM.ucsb.edu@Internet
> >cc:      (bcc: David Barnwell)
> >Subject:        Re: Strange Cisco traps....
> >
> >The Cisco is sending a trap for when it closes a TCP connection -- like a
> >telnet, or similar.  I'll bet that if you telnet to your routers and
> logout
> >repeatedly, these traps will be numerous.  Also, DLSW uses TCP for its
> >services, probably leading to more traps related to this.
> >
> >So far, I have not found a way to turn this off, short of disabling ALL
> >traps.
> >
> >--D
> >
> >Duane Waddle
> >waddle1@us.ibm.com
> >"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine..."  -- RFC1925
> >
> >
> >"Fendrick, Gib (CC-MIS)" <Gib.Fendrick@CONAGRA.COM> on 11/30/99 04:55:57
> PM
> >
> >Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
> >       NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
> >
> >To:   NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> >cc:
> >Subject:  Re: Strange Cisco traps....
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Gord,
> >I am new to Netview/AIX and still learning the system, so I don't know
> much
> >about the internals flow of events/traps through the system.  I've seen a
> >similar situation receiving this trap, but it seems to process correctly.
> >
> >I am also receiving many 'tcpConnectionClose' traps from two of my
> >core/central switches and one core router.  No one has figured out why
> yet.
> >The first time this started happening, our Cisco engineer stopped the
> traps
> >by shutting off those snmptraps in the switch and router involved, i.e.
> >didn't fix it, just stopped forwarding the traps to NetView.  Recently we
> >moved one of our central DLSW peers over to a new 7204 Cisco router, and
> >another switch started generating many of the 'tcpConnectionClose' traps.
> >Still, no one knows why.  But we ASSUME it has something to do with the
> >DLSW
> >traffic.
> >
> >To your question on the SNMP MIB ID.  We had no problem here.  The trap
> was
> >defined in the Cisco enterprise 1.3.6.1.4.1.9, and the trap event was
> >displayed correctly in the event display.  To temporarily keep the event
> >off
> >the event display, I went in to the Options-->Event Configuration-->Trap
> >Customization:  SNMP... and selected the CISCO enterprise, then selected
> >the
> >Cisco_tcpConnectClose event, and modified it to 'log only' to keep the
> >event
> >off the event display.   It sounds to me like you have this same
> Enterprise
> >defined on your system and it also contained this event, but the event is
> >not displaying correctly in your event window.  I have no idea why your
> >system wouldn't match up the incoming trap to the event defined.
> Hopefully
> >someone else with more trap experience can help, otherwise Tivoli tech
> >support.
> >
> >If you ever find out why the tcpConnectionClose traps are being
> generated,
> >let us know.
> >
> >Gib Fendrick
> >
> >
> >
> >                 -----Original Message-----
> >                 From:   Gord Michaels [mailto:gord_michaels@HOTMAIL.COM]
> >                 Sent:   Tuesday, November 30, 1999 2:43 PM
> >                 To:     NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> >                 Subject:        Strange Cisco traps....
> >
> >                 Hello All.
> >
> >                 My config is: Netview 5.1.1 and AIX 4.2.1.
> >
> >                 I have placed the loopback address of all my routers in
> my
> >seedfile. They
> >                 have been
> >                 discovered no problem.
> >
> >                 I keep receiving many "tcpConnectionClose" traps from
> >individual IP
> >                 Interfaces on
> >                 my Cisco routers. The strange thing is that these traps
> >belong to
> >                 enterprise:
> >
> >                 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.29
> >
> >                 Now, I used the cisco addtrap script to add a known
> cisco
> >traps to my
> >                 trapd.conf file.
> >                 But, there was no Enterprise with this ID.
> >
> >                 However, in the Enterprise 1.3.6.1.4.1.9, this trap did
> >exist?? This seems
> >                 very strange.
> >                 Anyway, I had to edit this Enterpirse (1.3.6.1.4.1.9)
> and
> >change it (and all
> >                 it's
> >                 individual trap definitions within trapd.conf) to
> >Enterprise
> >                 1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.29.
> >
> >                 Something seems very wrong with having to do this. Has
> >anyone ever came
> >                 accross this
> >                 problem before??
> >
> >                 Any info appreciated.
> >
> >                 Sincerely,
> >
> >                 Gord Michaels.
> >
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