I'm new to SW/Orion after many years using other products and after being tasked with rebuilding my employer's SW Orion environment from scratch, I have a question.
I've noticed that by default SW does absolutely nothing with traps etc. and one is expected to build all the trap processing logic from the ground up. I fail to see the logic in this as I'm of the school of thought it's better to have everything on by default and switch off what you don't need as oppose to giving you a starting base of 0 and expecting admins to build their own rule base. For example in the CA/Broadcom suites, the trap handling is built in. You load the MIB, there's a section for trap OIDS and you can then assign event codes to those OIDS - however out of the box the most common MIBS from a variety of vendors come pre-defined and there's over 60K pre-defined events from traps, some of which raise alarms, others clear them, or you can use them to manage an event chain i.e. if I receive trap X and then Y in Z seconds, fire off event A, and you can simply tell the event logic which varbinds in the traps to use to decide which traps require separate alarms and which would be re-occurrences of the same issue. It all works pretty flawlessly. I do not relish the thought of having to literally build trap handling from the ground up.
So my question:
Is there a repository of pre-defined trap handling rules somewhere for various vendors, Cisco, Dell etc. covering the more common MIB trap OIDS that one can download and import into a green field SW/Orion install to avoid having to "re-invent the wheel?" I've had a look through various threads on here but have come up with nothing - this may well be because I'm using the wrong nomenclature/vocab for the product, or it may be that nothing exists so far. I simply don't know. What I *do* know is that if I do have to build it all from scratch, then when it comes to renewal time for support and licensing, the lack of OOTB support for traps/logs etc. into Alerts will severely count against the product when it comes to comparing against other NMS solutions.
Thanks for any and all assistance that can be provided!
