Question on sending SNMPv1 trap using proxy forwarder

[Frank Fock]

Hello Ram,

The parameters do not need to be changed. You only need to set the
listen port of the proxy to 162.

Best regards,
Frank

Ram Krishnaswamy wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to do the following using proxy forwarder:
>
> SNMPv1 trap (sent on port 162) -----> proxy forwarder application (listening
> on port 4700) ------> SNMPv3 trap to manager.
>
> The SNMPv1 trap and the proxy forwarder are both on the same NT machine. The
> v1 trap is sent by another application running on this NT machine. When I
> send the SNMPv1 trap to IP 127.0.0.1 and port 4700 (since the proxy
> forwarder is set to listen) the traps gets converted to version 3 and is
> forwarded to manager.
>
> What needs to be changed/added in terms of configuration of tables to make
> proxy forwarder listen on port 162? I have configured the following tables.
>
> snmpCommunityTable:
>
> snmpCommunityName: public
> snmpCommunitySecurityName: public
> snmpCommunityContextEngineID: snmpman
> snmpCommunityContextName: dellserv
> snmpCommunityTransportTag:
> snmpCommunityStorageType: nonVolatile
> snmpCommunityStatus : active
>
> snmpProxyTable entry:
>
> snmpProxyName: snmpman
> snmpProxyType: trap(3)
> snmpProxyContextEngineID: snmpman
> snmpProxyContextName: dellserv
> snmpProxyTargetParamsIn: defaultV1Request
> snmpProxySingleTargetOut:
> snmpProxyMultipleTargetOut: v3request
> snmpProxyStorageType: nonVolatile
> snmpProxyRowStatus: active
>
> snmpTargetAddrTable:
>
> snmpTargetAddrName: v3request
> snmpTargetAddrTDomain: snmpUDPDomain
> snmpTargetAddrTAddress: 10.10.9.52/162
> snmpTargetAddrTimeout: 1500
> snmpTargetAddrRetryCount: 3
> snmpTargetAddrTagList: v3request
> snmpTargetAddrParams: defaultV3Request
>
> snmpTargetAddrStorageType: nonVolatile
> snmpTargetAddrRowStatus: active
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Ram Krishnaswamy
> x1671