[ale] snmp issues

[yahoo at jimpop.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Atlanta Geek <atlantageek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2 questions about snmp traps.
>  1, On ubuntu I have an snmptrap command.  On centos I installed
>  net-snmp and net-snmp-devel but I cannot find the snmptrap command.
>  Does anyone know what rpm installs snmptrap.

You need to install net-snmp-utils

>  2. On my ubuntu server I have snmptrapd running.  I can recieve traps
>  from the ubuntu server but the snmptrapd does not receive traps from
>  other servers.  nothing is written to any of my /var/logs. anyone have
>  any suggestions for this.

check /etc/snmpd.conf (or is it /etc/default/snmp*) to make sure
snmptrapd will accept from the network.  IIRC it defaults to localhost
only.

-Jim P.