We have been using scotty (snmpV1) for a couple of years (sunOs,
tnm1.4.5 currently) to monitor our network, after starting with the old
CMU library. We will soon move to solaris and we will try using tcl8 and
tnm1.4.7.
However our trap collection system was still based on a (hacked) version
of the cmu trap deamon. It was limited and also I don't want to port it
to Solaris. I am trying to start using the scotty straps/trap-script
system but I have the following difficulties:
1 - Is there any documentation: straps is started automatically by the
bind in the trap-script and dies on the kill of the script. Why is it
not a normal deamon or an inetd client?
2 - the system seems to hang after a while despite both tasks still
alive, no traps is reported anymore. How to debug?
3 - the script listens only to well defined traps (snmp version and
community). How to do to receive every thing possible? In particular
I do not manage to receive trap from my old CMU trap emulator despite
having set the same community.
4 - what people use the trap community for, usually? We have well
defined get and set communities defined on our network (not the public
default) (as a mild protection!). But up to now the trap communities
were variously set in our devices as we were not seeing its purpose.
With the scotty more precise system we would have to have a more strict
approach.
Many thanks in advance,
Francois
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