The network devices that you want to have sending their traps to NetView
each have to be configured for one or more "trap recipients", i.e., the
address(es) where they send their traps. Traps are sent/pushed, not
pulled or requested. They're not an snmpgets, they are unrequested.
Typically it's done by defining a "trap community', and listing a
specific ip address at the router, switch, etc. Reality is, the sending
of the udp traps doesn't involve a community name, but almost every
device I've ever seen uses the community table to set it up.
About automating, it can certainly be done, for example if you are using
Cisco2000 for cisco devices, you can schedule configuration updates with
that, and add the trap community and address in your template. Other
vendors have their own solutions.
But it's done at the network device, not at NetView. In fact, the trap
is set up in /usr/OV/conf/C/trapd.conf, and NetView doesn't even have to
have a valid community name for the network device. If the trap arrives,
he'll format it, and perform whatever action you may have configured.
If the traps for a device are not in trapd.conf, you get all those nasty
(No Known Format) messages.
Hope that helps.
"David E. Dimond" wrote:
>
> Hi Lynne,
>
> Not automatically. It can be done in a variety of ways though,
> and can certainly be automated, but the programming is left up to
> the admin. It's too darn vendor specific to expect Netview to
> handle it automatically, methinks...
>
> Dave Dimond
> Allina Health System
> Minneapolis, MN
>
> > Lynne Hill wrote:
> >
> > Hi. Please forgive me if this question has been addressed
> > before. We only have the NV 6.0 User Guide for NT
> > and Installation and Config. Guide for UNIX, and if the
> > answer is in either of those, darned if I can find it.
> >
> > Does NetView automatically "register" itself as a
> > trap recipient of discovered devices if the correct
> > SNMP write community has been specified in
> > SNMP Config.? For example, if device 10.10.10.5
> > has been discovered, and I have its write community
> > listed in SNMP Config., will NetView register itself
> > with this device to receive its traps, or do you have to
> > manually access the device and add the NetView
> > workstation to the device's list of trap recipients?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Lynne Hill
> > Systems Test Engineer
> > Nortel Networks
> > lyhill@nortelnetworks.com
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