SNMP Event Adapter component diagram and overview

The SNMP Event Adapter is a part of the Event Adapters service (mcxa), which includes the following adapters.

  • Log file adapter (reading and parsing logfiles)
  • Event Log adapter for window (reading and parsing windows event logs)
  • SNMP trap adapter(receiving and parsing SNMP traps types 1 and 2)
  • SNMPv3 trap adapter (receiving and parsing SNMP type 3 traps)

This section describes about SNMP trap and SNMPv3 trap adapters.

The SNMP trap and SNMPv3 trap adapters are configured in installationDirectory/pw/server/etc/mcxa.conf. 

Example:

Snmp

Engine = MA::ESnmpTrap

ServerName = pncell_mike

SnmpV3

Engine = MA::ESnmpTrapV3

ServerName = pncell_mike

SnmpTrapdConf = snmptrapd.conf 

 For additional examples, see the mcxa.conf file.

Note

Only one type of SNMP adapter should be used within a single mcxa.conf file.

SNMP Adapter

bmc_proactivenet_snmp_adapter.png

SNMP MIB files must be compiled for the adapter before the SNMP Adapter receives the SNMP traps. This is handled by the mib2map command line utility. For details, see Using-the-mib2map-CLI-utility.

When the SNMP trap is received, the SNMP Adapter tries matching the OID of the trap with the class defined in mcsnmptrapd.map and populates slots based on that definition.

 

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