Re: controlling authentication trap spam

Wes Hardaker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Organization Sparta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:09:04 +0200 (CEST), [email protected] said:

s> 1st Spam-Source: This simulation-request with only ONE wrong
s> community packet is generating 2 Traps, instead of 1, why?

Likely because your agent is configured with two trap sinks or
destinations.  Many people configure it with both a v1 and a v2 trap
sink, which is not at all needed.  Just the v2 sink will work.

s> - 2nd, cant fix the cause of authentication traps with the
s> information inside the trap: Is it possible to bring the IP of the
s> SNMP-Bad-Community-requester into the trap via configuration?  Per
s> default there is a lot of unuseful staff inside the authentication
s> trap, but not the importend information to catch the cause, why?

It simply hasn't been done?  I agree, more information is always a good
thing.

Patches welcome!
-- 
Wes Hardaker
Cobham Analytic Solutions

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