topic Issues with SNMP Forwarding in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

Issues with SNMP Forwarding

Ray Sutton_5 — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:12:30 GMT

Hi I have due to security reasons two SIM managers. One on a dark side of a network and the second on the good side (Star Wars fans chuckles expected!!). When I forward alarms from one manager to another I get the manager name in the name field and not the name of the machine in error. Is this a simple case of putting variables into the string to show the original name or am I just missing something. This second system is linked to the paging system and the text is the body of the message hence the need for the original machine name.

Regards
Ray

Re: Issues with SNMP Forwarding

Kevin_130 — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:42:15 GMT

It sounds likely that your second system does not have the same hosts being monitored as the first system.

I personally haven't seen this in HPSIM 4.x but ran into this when testing with the old CIM32 and IM7.

If you forward a trap from a system into SIM and the receiving SIM does not have the machine in error defined, it will send the alert as if the forwarding system was the one in error.

Good luck.

Re: Issues with SNMP Forwarding

Ray Sutton_5 — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 23:48:24 GMT

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the reply. Does this mean I have to provide a lookup table for the host addresses. I dont monitor these workstations/servers from the second box but have to use this (due to security) to provide the paging facility. Can I overcome this anyway by example creating a host lookup on the secondary box?

Many thanks
Ray

Re: Issues with SNMP Forwarding

Kevin_130 — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:10:47 GMT

I suppose if you did a manual discovery with a hosts file to add all your "invisible" systems that should work. On the downside, you would now see a bunch of servers in a perpetual Critical condition.

Re: Issues with SNMP Forwarding

Ray Sutton_5 — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 00:27:06 GMT

But surely the machine name would be embedded into the message text. Like NNM is their not a way that I can extract that information and put this into the message text? thats all I want to do. I think you can do this in previous versions of CIM but it doesnt appear to be easy on SIM? Am I wrong in this or have we lost functionality here?

Regards
Ray