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How to get SNMP Trap information from Orion SDK

Hi there. I am fairly new to Orion SDK. I am working on integrating SolarWinds NPM with an Alarm Monitoring System. I need to Create a Ticket in our Ticketing System whenever an SNMP Trap is received by NPM. How do I get this information from Orion SDK?

Looking at DB, I saw Trap based entries in Orion.OLM.LogEntry. I am assuming LogEntryTypeId = 3 is for Traps.
I am not sure whether this is the right approach to get Trap Messages and information.

Please let me know if there is a better more effecient way to do this.

As an alternative approach, I have also noticed that triggers can be used to initiate an external program from NPM. In that case, is there a way to send Trap information using Triggers

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bobmarley

Depending on the version you are running there are a couple options. If you have an older version RDP to your Orion server and look under SolarWinds Orion and find the Trap Viewer program. If you are on the newest version you can access the feature from the web console.

Either one allow you to create alerts from traps that are received.

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sudx

@bobmarley Thank you for the information. I can read the Trap Information through the Web Console alright.

I am trying to automate this process by using Orion SDK. So that I can poll the database and get this information directly without visiting the Web Console. Is there a way to get Trap information through Orion SDK?

bobmarley

If you open this table in SWQL studio I think Message is the one you need to pull

SELECT TOP 1000 TrapID, EngineID, DateTime, IPAddress, Community, Tag, Acknowledged, Hostname, NodeID, TrapType, ColorCode, TimeStamp, ObservationSeverity, Message, ObservationTimestamp, ObservationRowVersion, ObservationSeverityName, DisplayName, Description, InstanceType, Uri, InstanceSiteId
FROM Orion.Traps

We have worked on integrating Orion to create tickets on external ticketing systems and there were a few ways that it was successful. Some of our systems would scrape a mailbox and create tickets based off the contents of an email. Others had a VBScript that we wrote that Orion executed as an external program and one used an HTTP Post. All of these were done using the existing alert actions within Orion. We never used SDK for these. We do use SDK to pull statistics out of the DB, but that is to populate charts in SharePoint.