There is a trace function in trapd, which will show you the contents of 
each trap received in hexadecimal.  The parts that are ASCII characters 
are shown also in an "eyecatcher" which is also printed with the trace. If 
you want to understand the complete hexadecimal output, you would have to 
get a book on SNMP formats and decode that trap.    Otherwise you could 
call Support and have them do it for you, if you require proof that trapd 
is telling the truth about what he got. 
If that's what you want to do, use serversetup to configure trapd to hex 
dump all packets.  This causes him to run with the -x option.  Then when 
he is up and running and you want to capture something in the trace, you 
type "trapd -T" to toggle the trace on.  Typing "trapd -T from the command 
line turns it off again.  Unless you change it, the name of the trace file 
will be /usr/OV/log/trapd.trace. 

But if trapd says it only got one variable, the fact is that  it only got 
one variable.  He's never been wrong about that before in the 6 years I 
have been working on this product.  That's all your agent sent.

James Shanks
Level 3 Support  for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
 





"D'Apice, Dominic" <D.D'Apice AT SAQ.qc DOT ca>
04/18/2002 10:39 AM

 
        To:     "'nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com'" <nv-l AT lists.tivoli DOT com>
        cc: 
        Subject:        [nv-l] trace on what variables a specific trap send to 
netview

 

hi, nv7.1 and aix 4.3.3

There is a way to put a trace on what variables a specific trap send to
netview ?

one of my trap send to me only one variable ($1). i try to put $2 $3... 
(in
option/snnmp trap custm...) and the result was than netview tell me that 
he
receive only one variable 


thank

> Dominic D'Apice
> Technicien informatique (OGEINF)
> Société des Alcools du Québec
> 2021 des futailles, Montréal Québec H1N 3M7
> * (514) 253-6015
> * D.D'Apice AT saq.qc DOT ca
> 
> 

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