When we migrated to our NPM install from HP Network Node Manager I knew that NPM supported SNMP Trap handling. After looking at what tools were available to me, the best I could get setup was a very basic filtering using the Trap Viewer, an email with the trap details or selected varbinds, and a Solarwinds Orion alert that would trigger off of the color of a given trap set by the trap viewer. So the flow would be that an alert would show up in Orion with almost no details about what was going on other than the host name and time. From that alert, you would have to dig through your email and find something from that hostname at that given time to figure out what was going on. My company wasn't exactly happy with this so we contracted with a third part to create a standalone application to provide better integration. What they provided was an application that checked the traps database every 30s, filtered the traps based on a trap filter table that created a hash based on the varbinds for that trap, and then pushed the traps selected by the filter to a table and customizable view that we could use in the Orion UI to display traps just like they were events. The application also allowed us to parse the varbinds like you can in an email, but with them showing up as a row in the customized view. Could we get something like this integrated in NPM going forward?
