topic SNMP traps from ProCurve to HPSIM in Switches, Hubs, and Modems

SNMP traps from ProCurve to HPSIM

Jürgen Hiltebrandt — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:02:35 GMT

Hello guys,
I want to get my ProCurve's events in my HP System Insight Manager 5, so I setup snmp on a 2626 with

snmp-server host 10.10.1.1 "public" Not-Info

My problem now is, that I only get the basic snmp traps like, Link UP, Link Down, Cold start, ...
What is more important for me, is to get the e.g. "Excessive late collisions" messages which I see in the switchs eventlog, but not in my HPSIM events.

Plz help!

Re: SNMP traps from ProCurve to HPSIM

Mohieddin Kharnoub — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 02:10:08 GMT

Hi

Try this command for Critical events:

snmp-server host 10.10.1.1 public Critical

Or for All Events:

snmp-server host 10.10.1.1 public all

Good Luck !!!

Re: SNMP traps from ProCurve to HPSIM

Jürgen Hiltebrandt — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 03:22:42 GMT

Thanx Mohieddin,

but as I told, I already set up snmp-traps for not-info. And I already get those "Link Up, ..." messages, even I defined "not-info".

The ProCurve userguide says, that if not specifying the event level (all, critical, not-info ...) only well-known traps (Link-Up, Cold Start, ...) are send. For eventlog messages being send, an event level has to be specified.

It seems, that I only get those well-known traps, but no eventlog messages, even I defined an event level (not-info).

My guess is, wether eventlog traps are not send at all by the switch, or my HPSIM filters them or doesn't accept them.

Any clue?

Re: SNMP traps from ProCurve to HPSIM

Kenneth Wernicke — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 08:14:02 GMT

Hi

I have the same issue you describe. I wonder if you have a solution yet. If so, please can you share it?

Re: SNMP traps from ProCurve to HPSIM

Matt Hobbs — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:02:54 GMT

For HPSIM to recognise all of the traps sent from ProCurve switches, you will need to load the ProCurve specific MIBs into HPSIM.

At the moment it is only recognising the generic trap types.

http://www.hp.com/rnd/software/MIBs.htm

Even with the MIBs loaded, I'm not too sure how well it will work with HPSIM. If possible I'd recommend you look at using ProCurve Manager instead.

Re: SNMP traps from ProCurve to HPSIM

Kenneth Wernicke — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:56:28 GMT

thank you for the mib link!

I added the mibs with mcompile and mxmib, but I still cannot receive any traps. The mibs are listed under SNMP Trap Settings, but it seems that the mibs are "empty". When I select a mib, there is nothing under Trap Name and so on.

The reason why I don't want to use the Procurve management tool is that I want to use one tool for management and that is HP SIM.

Re: SNMP traps from ProCurve to HPSIM

Carsten Reinhard — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:09:59 GMT

Especially ProCurve Manager is only able to work on Syslog-Events, not on SNMP Events.

Re: SNMP traps from ProCurve to HPSIM

Matt Hobbs — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:49:26 GMT

That's kind of what I was afraid might happen. My feeling is that HPSIM requires that the MIBs use the 'TRAP-TYPE' macro, most ProCurve MIBs do not use this. Instead they use 'NOTIFICATION-TYPE' (Except for the 9300's which use h2r07601a.mib - maybe try loading that MIB and hopefully you should see the trap types under Trap Settings).

From the link: http://h10018.www1.hp.com/wwsolutions/misc/hpsim-helpfiles/simsnmp.pdf

It says that mcompile resolves all MIB dependencies and, where necessary, converts SNMP v2 MIBs into v1 format for loading into the HP Systems Insight Manager database.

My wild guess is that since it needs to convert everything into v1, this indicates it does not support the NOTIFICATION-TYPE as that relies on SNMPv2-SMI.

Nevertheless, I'll see if I can try this out myself in the near future.

Just on PCM again, ProCurve Manager offers a lot more than just trap management so I would strongly recommend you look at it if possible - I agree though it would be nice to have a more unified system... Openview can tie different management applications together to provide a unified management solution, but obviously the software costs start adding up.

Re: SNMP traps from ProCurve to HPSIM

dj_farid — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:07:18 GMT

It's been six months now. Any progress on this subject? I am in the same situation.

Re: SNMP traps from ProCurve to HPSIM

didier.descotes — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:31:08 GMT

i've got the same pb for 2 weeks..
have you found anything on this?
I'm very interested!

Re: SNMP traps from ProCurve to HPSIM

Matt Hobbs — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 01:19:36 GMT

I have most MIBs successfully imported and the 'NOTIFICATION-TYPE' traps do seem to work fine too.

The key to getting the MIBs imported is renaming the ProCurve MIB files to that of the first line in the MIB file itself.

E.g. hpicfXrrp.mib - rename to hp-icf-xrrp.mib

Then on HP SIM:

C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\mibs>mcompile.exe HP-ICF-XRRP.mib

HP Systems Insight Manager Mib Compiler, Version 5.0.2.1
Copyright (c) 2003-2006 Hewlett Packard Corporation

Compiling HP-ICF-XRRP.mib

Processing import file: SNMPv2-SMI.mib
Processing import file: SNMPv2-CONF.mib
Processing import file: q-bridge.mib
Processing import file: RMON2-MIB.mib
Processing import file: SNMPv2-TC.mib
Processing import file: HP-ICF-OID.mib
Mib Compilation completed successfully

C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight Manager\mibs>mxmib.exe -a HP-ICF-XRRP.cfg

IMPORTING CFG HP-ICF-XRRP.cfg
COMMAND COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY

You need to rename most of the ProCurve MIBs. In the example above, I needed to rename hpicfOid.mib first otherwise it would not compile.

I've attached an end results screenshot of the XRRP MIB in HP SIM.

I would still advise anyone that wants to do this to use PCM instead.

Re: SNMP traps from ProCurve to HPSIM

didier.descotes — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:29:54 GMT

hey! i dont know if your problem is still alive
i've found the pb i had, which looks like yours.
The pb is that HP SIM only watch traps objects inside a mib (notification type too)
in other words, the objects inside a mib are unreadable from hp sim instead these two types : traps and notifications!