Trap destinations

[Frank Fock]

Hi Alex,

Please read RFC 2573 at
http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2573.txt
for information about the SNMP-TARGET-MIB and
the SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB. Those two
MIBs specifiy the standard way for defining trap
destinations.

(RMON2 is not needed for this!)

Best regards,
Frank

Alex Finogenov wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to know what the standard or common practice suggests regarding
> trap destinations.
>
> W. Stallings in his "SNMP, SNMPv2, SNMPv3 and RMON 1 and 2", 3rd edition,
> says that an agent defines the SNMP communities, i.e. it defines the
> managers that may access its MIB. RMON 2 is enhanced by defining Trap
> Destination Table where managers can define IP addresses of the stations
> that can receive traps for a given community, but I couldn't find anywhere
> how trap destination IP addresses should be defined in SNMP. This tells me
> that without RMON 2 a manager cannot define trap destinations and they are
> defined by the agent.
>
> Do you agree? What are the industry practice, and what do the standards say
> about this?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Alex