Re: Details about notification

"Dave Shield" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 22/01/07, Luxmiram Vijayandran <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here is an example with 2 computer A (with Manager) and B (with Agent and
> its MIB)..... we want to send a message (then wait
> for an ack) from A to B

If you want to send a notification from computer A to computer B, then you
need to have a "notification receiver" application (such as snmptrapd)
running on computer B.
   It doesn't matter what other applications are running on B as well - there
could easily be an SNMP agent, but this is irrelevant when it comes to
handling incoming traps.


> So, can I send a "snmptrap or inform" from A to B.

Yes.

>                                             Usually the generator is
> on the Agent side (B) and the snmptrapd daemon (receiver) is on the
> manager side (A).

Computers are clever - they can do more than one thing at once :-)
It is perfectly feasible to run an SNMP agent and a trap receiver on
the same box.  Remember - a role is associated with an *application*,
not a computer.

   So the "notification receiver" would be "snmptrapd-running-on-B"
rather than simply "computer B"


> If I not misunderstood your answer A and B can be both generator and
> receiver at the same time,

Yes - see above.


Dave

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