[c-nsp] Automatic SNMP trap generation

[Sam Stickland]

Hi Gert,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert at greenie.muc.de]
> Sent: 26 April 2006 10:30
> To: Sam Stickland
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Automatic SNMP trap generation
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:57:16AM +0100, Sam Stickland wrote:
> > We need to run through our NMS and check that every device is correctly
> > sending traps (and that the traps actually reach the NMS). Is there any
> way,
> > perhaps using the SNMP r/w community, to get a Cisco device to generate
> a
> > test (or unimportant) trap?
> 
> prod it with a non-valid SNMP communities to trigger alerts?
> 
> (I know that these are logged via syslog, but I'm not sure whether it
> will cause SNMP traps)

Checked this out and SNMP trapped are generated on invalid SNMP communities,
so firing off a bunch of snmpgets with bogus community strings we can test
this.

Thanks,

Sam