Re: [tkined] Using Trap Sink

Louis A. Mamakos (louie@TransSys.COM)
Tue, 02 Jun 1998 21:49:34 -0400

> It is an interesting question whether the current strategie to drop
> all traps that do not match the community string of the receiving SNMP
> session is reasonable or not. Community string are sometimes used to
> indicate the context for a varbind list and there are cases where you
> do not know all possible community strings in advance. In these cases,
> it would be better to pass all incoming traps to all trap handler and
> to let the receiving scripts filter the traps they do not like to
> process.
>
> It is likely that the next major version of the Tnm extension will
> replace the current strategie with the strategie described above.

Alternatively, have a mechanism whereby you can get all of the
traps regardless of the community; perhaps a distinguished (e.g, null
string) value for the SNMP session?

louie

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