RE: [nv-l] nvsnmptrap not working

["Karl Prinelle" <Karl.Prinelle@elyzium.co.uk>]

I checked the snmp and snmptrap service security - all ok.  The machine has a static address.

The machine is a vmware image, but it's connectivity seems ok - TMR and TEC and happy from the host and other hosts on my network.

In the end I figured something dum was happening so I re-installed NV - it was a totally vanilla install to start with & it's working fine now (as it previously did)!  Of course my generated nvsnmptrap call wasn't quite right, but that is what I was testing.....;-)

 

In general I think the comments are correct though - it was connectivity of some sort going wrong - I've seen strange effects when ip addresses have changed underneath me & this was similar.  If it happens again I'll start there.

 

 

Many thanks..

 

K

 

 

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From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com [mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com] On Behalf Of George deSocio
Sent: 03 February 2004 18:51
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [nv-l] nvsnmptrap not working

Are you using DHCP and you got a different IP address at reboot?  And did you permit the "old" ip address to send traps in the security tab for the Windows snmp  service?

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Geo.

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"Karl Prinelle" <Karl.Prinelle@elyzium.co.uk> Sent by: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com 02/03/2004 11:24 AM Please respond to nv-l

To:        <nv-l@lists.tivoli.com>         cc:                 Subject:        [nv-l] nvsnmptrap not working

Hi list,
 
Bit of an odd one....  I'm testing a problem on Win2k and NV 7.1.4 - it's just some updates to the .cds file.  
 
I've already made my changes and they worked ok - nvsnmptrap sends trap to the NV events list & they go on to TEC - a little script I have contains a test of each trap & running that shows they all went through ok.  No problem - left it for a day & a reboot later & now traps don't work!
 
To qualify that - my nvsnmptrap calls run, have no output but nothing appears in the Netview events list or trapd.log.  I've switched tracing on (trapd -t c:\temp\trapd-trace.log), the trace file says nothing too - apart from that it's starting.  
 
Internal traps are coming through, no problem!  The odd thing is that I can still see the traps I sent previously in the events list so I know I'm not going completely mad.  I've checked that the traps are all defined as Status Events & not Log only, but either way they should appear in the trapd.log/trace files???
 
Below is the nvsnmptrap call I'm using.  
 
nvsnmptrap 192.168.1.51 1.3.6.1.4.1.3764.3 10.10.11.51 6 2 1  .1.3.6.1.4.1.3764.3.5 OctetString "Test string" .1.3.6.1.4.1.3764.3.16.3.1.19 Integer 9999
 
As a possibly related aside, I changed the nvsnmptrap call to be snmptrap and ran it on my Linux machine & it worked fine - well, I got unknown formatted trap because I didn't load the trap definitions, but trapd.log on linux shows that it was my correct trap coming in...
 
Any pointers appreciated - have I pressed some magic "switch off my traps" button ?
 
Ta in advance
 
K
 
 
 
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