topic Re: Basic Linux installation - How can i "Generate" SNMP Traps? in Operating System - Linux

Basic Linux installation - How can i "Generate" SNMP Traps?

Daniel Simard — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:14:29 GMT

Hi All,
We use SolarWind's monitoring solution called 'Orion' to monitor all our HP servers (specially running Windows).

I would like to know the easiest, simplest way, for me to manually generate SNMP traps from my linux server, to the Orion monitoring station. (I have the community string information etc...)

I don't want to configure my linux server to be an SNMP server (in other words, receive traps), I just want to send "test" traps possibly command line?

Your help is appreciated!

Re: Basic Linux installation - How can i "Generate" SNMP Traps?

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:01:47 GMT

Shalom,

This depends a lot on your linux distribution.

For yum based distros
yum list | grep -i snmp

See whats there and then:
yum install

Modify the snmp community strings to your environment as noted in your original post.

snmpwalk is a good commmand I learned in HP-UX to test snmp trap configuration.

SEP

Re: Basic Linux installation - How can i "Generate" SNMP Traps?

J. Maestre — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:12:36 GMT

The snmp client package mentioned above provides tools like snmptrap and snmptest to send traps.