I am currently working on script that will use the Net::SNMP module to check a service on a remote machine and if it isn't running then it will send a trap to an event manager. I can check the service successfully and I can send an empty trap successfully, however I have not been able to send a trap with any information actually in it. Here is a snippet of code I am using.
I have already successfully made the SNMP connection: 
my $svSvcName = '1.3.6.1.4.1.77.1.2.3.1.1';
my $message = "THIS IS AN SNMP TEST";
my @oids = ($svSvcName, OCTET_STRING, $message);
#my @oids;

my $result = $session->trap(
                            -agentaddr    => '172.16.4.32',
                            -varbindlist  => \@oids
                            #-varbindlist  => [$svSvcName, OCTET_STRIN
+G, "$message"]
);

if (!defined($result)) {
    printf("ERROR: %s.\n", $session->error);
    $session->close;
    exit 1;
}

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This is the error I get using this code: ERROR: Unknown ASN.1 type [OCTET_STRING].

In reply to Send SNMP trap by tertullian01

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