snmptrapd.conf format1 and format2 tokens not being used?!

"Schaatsbergen, Chris" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <604AAF035805AB46B4F293945AE8F9FC0325E50CBB@pzex01-07>
Greetings,

I am a relative new Linux user and have been given the task to implement Splunk. Splunk can unfortunately not directly read SNMP traps and thus I am using snmptrapd to write the snmp traps into a logfile that Splunk is very good at interpreting. But Splunk needs some kind of timestamp to get some order in chaos. After some reading up I found the snmptrapd.conf file and adjusted settings. Everything is working, the snmp traps get logged in the logfile, but without the formatting I added in the snmptrapd.conf. Unfortunately since I am not using the default output, I seem unable to pass the format parameter to snmptrapd itself either.

We am running Debian server, net-snmp version 5.4.1. The snmptrapd.conf file currently:

format1 '%y-%m-%l ?%h:%j:%k ?%b ?%P ?%N ?%W ?%v\n'
format2 '%y-%m-%l ?%h:%j:%k ?%b ?%P ?%N ?%W ?%v\n'
authCommunity log Cisco
logOption f /var/run/snmp-traps

But I tried loads of different settings for the formats already.

Can anyone please guide me in the right direction?

Chris Schaatsbergen

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