Re: Need of snmpDaemon while sending snmp traps

Pushpa Thimmaiah <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.net-snmp.user
Message-ID <CAASqVJUEkOg_=WXWY7HVBSV7CGtLndiAYQN6azTcxhTrp9QqYA@mail.gmail.com>
Thank You Wes Hardaker and Pranesh.  This information is very helpful.
So  both snmpDaemon and  snmptrap able to send traps out and can be used
either of them according to situation.


On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Wes Hardaker <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Pranesh Kulkarni <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > snmpd -- > SNMP Agent Daemon which sends the trap
> > snmptrapd -> SNMP Trap Daemon which recevies the trap
> > snmptrap -> Application which sends the trap
>
> Pranesh is right:  Functionally snmptrap sends a manual trap to a given
> destination and it has nothing to do with the running agent.
>
> Some people use this in scripts to send a trap from a cron script or
> some other mechanism, where the agent doesn't necessarily have the
> information to send the trap.
>
> --
> Wes Hardaker
> Parsons
>

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