How to setup a SNMP Trap Alert for a group of Traps?

Question

I am curious if there is a good way to setup an SNMP Trap alert for a specified group of Traps.

For example I want to know if I receive any of the Compaq (now HP) drive array status changes are received. There are a bunch of traps in this category of traps and I would prefer to not have to specify each and every one.

Is this possible?

P.S. The Compaq Environmental traps are another group I would be interested in doing this with as any of these changes are important to know about as well.

Thanks in advance for any tips!

byrona · Accepted Answer

Thanks for the compliment on the Avatar!

While this isn't exactly the solution for what I am trying to accomplish it gave me some ideas on how to solve a different problem I was facing so it was still helpful.

I ended up figuring out my answer...

What I wanted was a way to seutp a single SNMP Trap Alert Rule that would capture all of the traps below a specified section in an SNMP MIB tree.

One example would be to trigger an alert on any of the Compaq traps which are typically things that I wanted to know about. I was able to accomplish this by specifying the first half of the condition to be "TrapEnterprise is equal to" followed by the specific enterprise I was interested in, Compaq in this case.

Below is a screenshot of the alert condition...