SNMP Trap messages climbing rapidly

Question

Just out of curiosity we have NPM receiving SNMP trap alerts from our Cisco UCCE solution. In just a couple days there have been 80,000 trap messages. We may need to look into that but out of curiosity will messages just keep piling into the server or is there a period to say if an alert is X old or only keep X alerts?

I just dont want the database to fill up because of silly trap messages.

kweise · Accepted Answer

Yes there is.  If you look at the Trap Viewer on your Orion server (Start | All Programs | SolarWinds Orion | Syslog and SNMP traps | Trap Viewer), go to File | Settings.  On the General tab there is a setting that allows you to retain trap messages for how many days.  Your options are from 1 to 5000 days.