SNMP polling

Question

A question for the collective brains trust.

I have NPM setup and running monitoring data centre environments. I have recently deployed a number of APC Netbotz cameras which amongst other things, alerts on motion or movement. I have created a custom poller for a number of things which all work ok. The problem I have is unless the custom poller is polling at the same time the motion is detected, it is not picked up. The polls are 60 sec apart.

What I need (and can't work out) is how to get Orion to react to an incoming SNMP alert (as opposed to polling a device for it's state).

Any help would be appreciated.

Simon

savell · Answer

So when you use Orion Service Manager from the poller, do you see the SolarWinds Trap Service? (and the SolarWinds Syslog Service). Are they both started?

You should also have a trap viewer and syslog viewer installed on the poller (SolarWinds Orion/Syslog and SNMP traps) - are there messages visible in both? Have you configured your devices to send traps/syslog to your poller IP address?

You should also be able to use the web views to show the same messages.

It is possible that someone installed your Orion implemenation without installing these options.

Dave.

adelgigs · Answer

Dave,

I'm struggling to find where in Orion you capture SNMP alerts. The syslog collector doesn't seem to do anything with SMNP.

What I want to do is caputure adhoc SMNP alerts from network devices.

Simon

savell · Answer

Orion NPM does indeed have both an snmp and syslog collector.

You can do a number of advanced alert actions based upon the receipt of a trap or syslog.

In version 10, I beleive that we will also be able to change an interface status based upon a trap (which you may find useful in this circumstance).

Dave.