you could always use something like snoop, tcpdump, etc to see if the trap is sending out of the socket.

eliminate one failure possibility at a time.

  1. make sure it's a legit trap (as another poster noted)
  2. make sure the trap is sending (via network sniffers)
  3. make sure the OpenView box is accepting traps for that host
just an off-the-top list.

i don't immediately remember the ports that traps use, and i don't have access to the code i maintained for a trap collector at a previous company, so i'm relying on memory.

In reply to Re: SNMP Trap not working with Perl 5.8.3 by geektron
in thread SNMP Trap not working with Perl 5.8.3 by w3ntp

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