Creating alerts based off of SNMP trap that are received by Solarwinds

ddixon

Fist time poster and new Solarwinds user reporting in!

That being said apologies for the simple questions, but I'm having trouble finding the right information.

We are currently running NPM version 2023.3

My group is implementing some environmental alarming equipment and I have the equipment set up to report 12 different alarm conditions by sending SNMP traps to my local Solarwinds poller. I can see the traps coming into my Solarwinds instance by using the Log Viewer for traps. My problem is that while I've created many alerts in the past through the GUI, I can't seem to find a way to have a specific trap generate a specific alert. Is there an option or a way to have a specific SNMP trap trigger a custom alert(example: Open door, loss of power, generator running, etc...)? I've seen many other posts talking about building custom SQL queries to achieve this goal but I do not have much real experience in that department. Are there any guides for simple 1 trap to 1 alert creation? If SQL is the only way to go are there any tutorials on that path?

Sorry again for the basic question and thanks in advance for any support that is received!

stuartd

You very much can build an alert from a trap.

My caveat about this, is that unless you pay for the full log analyser [OLA] then you will never be able to guarantee that the traps are processed in a timely manner.

So during the process of creating your trap rule, and IIRC, under the Actions section there is the 'Alert Integration' section. Simply tick  in 'Send a Log Rule Fired' box and then you get the option to create your alert. Don't stress about editing that at this stage as it will then appear in your alerts tab and you can adjust parameters there.

Once you've done this integration, the bottom of the actions tab looks like this with your linked alert name(s) listed: