[syslog-ng]SNMP source and destination

[todd.glassey@att.net]

The nice thing about SNMP style traffic logs is that you 
can process them with MRTG and generate good graphical 
content for reports and the like. I suggest that you 
look at http://www.mrtg.org for more details on this.

T.

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Regards,
Todd
> I don't know if anyone has answered this, and I'm too lazy to look in
> the archive.  But here it goes:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 01:44:30PM -0400, Mark W. Alexander wrote:
> > I just installed syslog-ng as a syslog concentrator for multiple
> > network management applications that feed off syslog. I need to do the
> > same thing with SNMP traps. I tried simple source and destination on
> > the SNMP udp ports and it does grab and forward but not in any manner
> > that makes sense to SNMP listeners on the detinations.
> 
> Assuming you were using syslog-ng this make sense.  Syslog and SNMP
> Trap are very different protocols.
> 
> > Has anyone done any work on SNMP specific sources or destinations? If
> > not, is anyone else interested and can anyone give me a gentle push
> > into the sources (like where the udp source/destination code is)?
> 
> I have, but since I am not a big fan of SNMP I used an SNMP Trap
> daemon that turned everything into syslog traffic (decoding what it
> could of those nasty SNMP OIDs).  This has worked well for me, as it
> unifies logging into one resource.
> 
> http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Another package, Scotty, is also quite good, and is written in TCL/Tk.
> I don't have the URL handy.
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