ExpertEvent Sources SNMP and Windows collectors?
I have little personal experience with Event Sources, to my knowledge we dont extensively use them on our portal. I've found about 3 documents pertaining to event sources, and I'm trying to find out whether or not a Windows collector can even get SNMP traps? The documentation I've found doesnt even discuss about how to set up the other side to get into LM ... do we need to set up credentials on the snmp collector to allow snmp to be delivered? Or can the collector just see snmp traps on the right ports? Or does the OS not even let that through? I cant find these details anywhere.
I'm just wondering if maybe I've overlooked that discussion, or if LM just figured out its a dumb question and I should know. :)
Anyway I have a device that can only send email or snmp traps, but our collector base is mostly windows, and we use WMI obviously for monitoring, so nothing SNMP related is even set up on any windows servers.
Sorry if this is a dumb question. Help? :)
You can receive traps on Windows. The collector by default sets this up.
You can check by going into Settings -> Collectors then Manage Collector.
In there check the collector config.# SnmpTrap eventcollector.snmptrap.enable=true eventcollector.snmptrap.threadpool=10 eventcollector.snmptrap.address=udp:0.0.0.0/162You need an event source enabled and working tho to see see the traps and have them create alerts.
