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Re: snmptrap command (reformatted)

2000-03-23 10:16:04
Subject: Re: snmptrap command (reformatted)
From: James_Shanks AT tivoli DOT com
To: nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 10:16:04 -0500

Leslie Clark wrote:
     >> There is an outside chance that you might have trouble with the specific
     >> number you have chosen. It used to be documented (in V3) that specific
     >> trap ids 1000-1999 are reserved for your use. I don't know if that means
     >> it mishandles other numbers.

Nah.  It just means that we pledge not to use this range ourselves.  snmptrap
doesn't care about what specific id you use.  Theoretically, you should be able
to use it to duplicate any valid trap.  (It won't format invalid ones).  To
solve some customer problems I have even gone  so far as to (a) turn on the hex
dump of all packets in trapd,  (b) pull out a vendor trap from trapd.trace, (c)
translate it by hand, and (d) use the translation to construct an snmptrap
command which would send a duplicate trap.  It can do so, even down to the time
stamp, if that is what you want.

James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX and NT) L3 Support


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