Re: single snmp trap/event to multiple opennms instances

David Hustace <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Jul 2018 07:39:48 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.network.opennms.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> On Jul 31, 2018, at 07:01, Mike Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I haven't used the second solution (having OpenNMS send traps), so I can't speak further to it.

The SNMP Trap North Bounder is for sending Alarm updates to another console.  It's not a trap proxy/forwarder so to speak.  So, that won't work for duplicating traps.  The best two way are:

1) As you described, from the source (the devices/servers), send traps to two different NMS'; a.k.a. SNMP Trap sinks.

2) Use a load balancer solution and configure your devices to send all traps to a the load balanced VIP which then is configured to forward the UDP datagrams to each NMS.

Option 1 is most economical.  Option 2 is nice because you only need to configure one address in the devices and that IP can be managed with routing and application layer tools such as a load balancer.

Using a proxy introduces complications with determining the source of SNMP v2c notifications (traps).

David Hustace
The OpenNMS Group, Inc.
+1 (919) 443-1562

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