Re: [nv-l] rfc1213-mib2 traps?

[James Shanks <jshanks@us.ibm.com>]

Whatever that device is which is sending
you these traps, it is broken.  No MIB will help.
Notice the "NO
FMT IN TRAPD.CONF: .0.0 (0.0) generic:2"  message?
That indicates that the enterprise OID
is 0.0 which is simply an error.  Enterprise id's cannot be zero.
You need to contact the vendor, Cisco,
if that's who it is, and get a fix for this.  Failing that I'd turn
off the traps because you won't be able to define them in trapd.conf.  

If you want to obtain a hex representation
of what is actually  being sent, so you can send that to the vendor,
then you can do that with a trapd.trace.
First, use server setup to configure
trapd to dump all packets to hex (the -x option).  Then when he's
up and running you can toggle the trace off and on again with "trapd
-T" issued from the command line.  The trapd.trace file will
then contain a hex dump of every incoming trap, and you can match these
bad boys up with time stamps in the trapd.log

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and Windows
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group

"Scherting, Mark" <mscherting@state.mt.us>
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07/13/2004 12:10 PM

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Subject	[nv-l] rfc1213-mib2 traps?

Hi all,
 
I'm looking for a mib that I can get some
trap definitons from in hopes that I won't have to create a new enterprise
and definitions.  I'm receiving the following traps from Cisco Aironet
350 bridges but there are no trap definitions in rfc1213-mib-II where these
oid's are defined.  Not only are these traps annoying, but they are
not very informative.  Should I just tell all these devices to not
send any more traps?

1089734377 2 Tue Jul 13 09:59:37 2004 msp-air-tower2.nms.state.mt.us ? NO FMT IN TRAPD.CONF: .0.0 (0.0) generic:2 specific:0 args(2): [1] mgmt.mib-2.interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifIndex.1 (Integer): 1

1089734377 2 Tue Jul 13 09:59:37 2004 msp-air-tower2.nms.state.mt.us ? [2] mgmt.mib-2.interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifDescr.1 (OctetString): fec0

AND/OR:

1089734377 2 Tue Jul 13 09:59:37 2004 msp-air-tower2.nms.state.mt.us ? NO FMT IN TRAPD.CONF: .0.0 (0.0) generic:2 specific:0 args(2): [1] mgmt.mib-2.interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifIndex.10 (Integer): 10

1089734377 2 Tue Jul 13 09:59:37 2004 msp-air-tower2.nms.state.mt.us ? [2] mgmt.mib-2.interfaces.ifTable.ifEntry.ifDescr.10 (OctetString): br10

Thanks!

Mark Scherting
State of Montana
Information Technology Services Division

mscherting(at)state.mt.us