Question on sending SNMPv1 trap using proxy forwarder - Please disregard this message

Ram Krishnaswamy RKrishnaswamy____pathfire.com
Thu Aug 9 00:05:00 CEST 2001


I found the solution. I just needed to make the NT agent send its trap to
the same port the proxy forwarder is listening to. 

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Ram Krishnaswamy  
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 08, 2001 5:27 PM
> To:	'agentpp-dl at agentpp.com'
> Subject:	Question on sending SNMPv1 trap using proxy forwarder
> 
> 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
> 



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