Ubuntu Manpage: snmptrapd - Receive and log SNMP trap messages.

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NAME

       snmptrapd - Receive and log SNMP trap messages.

SYNOPSIS

       snmptrapd [OPTIONS] [LISTENING ADDRESSES]

DESCRIPTION

       snmptrapd is an SNMP application that receives and logs SNMP TRAP and INFORM messages.

       Note:  the  default  is  to listen on UDP port 162 on all IPv4 interfaces.  Since 162 is a
       privileged port, snmptrapd must typically be run as root.

OPTIONS

-a Ignore authenticationFailure traps.

-A Append to the log file rather than truncating it.

Note that this needs to come before any -Lf options that it should apply to.

-c FILE Read FILE as a configuration file (or a comma-separated list of configuration
files).

-C Do not read any configuration files except the one optionally specified by the -c
option.

-d Dump (in hexadecimal) the sent and received SNMP packets.

-D[TOKEN[,...]]
Turn on debugging output for the given TOKEN(s). Try ALL for extremely verbose
output.

-f Do not fork() from the calling shell.

-F FORMAT
When logging to standard output, use the format in the string FORMAT. See the
section FORMAT SPECIFICATIONS below for more details.

-h, --help
Display a brief usage message and then exit.

-H Display a list of configuration file directives understood by the trap daemon and
then exit.

-I [-]INITLIST
Specifies which modules should (or should not) be initialized when snmptrapd
starts up. If the comma-separated INITLIST is preceded with a '-', it is the list
of modules that should not be started. Otherwise this is the list of the only
modules that should be started.

To get a list of compiled modules, run snmptrapd with the arguments -Dmib_init -H
(assuming debugging support has been compiled in).

-L[efos]
Specify where logging output should be directed (standard error or output, to a
file or via syslog). See LOGGING OPTIONS in snmpcmd(1) for details.

-m MIBLIST
Specifies a colon separated list of MIB modules to load for this application.
This overrides the environment variable MIBS. See snmpcmd(1) for details.

-M DIRLIST
Specifies a colon separated list of directories to search for MIBs. This
overrides the environment variable MIBDIRS. See snmpcmd(1) for details.

-n Do not attempt to translate source addresses of incoming packets into hostnames.

-p FILE Save the process ID of the trap daemon in FILE.

-O [abeEfnqQsStTuUvxX]
Specifies how MIB objects and other output should be displayed. See the section
OUTPUT OPTIONS in the snmpcmd(1) manual page for details.

-t Do not log traps to syslog. This disables logging to syslog. This is useful if
you want the snmptrapd application to only run traphandle hooks and not to log any
traps to any location.

-v, --version
Print version information for the trap daemon and then exit.

-x ADDRESS
Connect to the AgentX master agent on the specified address, rather than the
default "/var/agentx/master". See snmpd(8) for details of the format of such
addresses.

-X Do not connect to a AgentX master agent

--name="value"
Allows one to specify any token ("name") supported in the snmptrapd.conf file and
sets its value to "value". Overrides the corresponding token in the snmptrapd.conf
file. See snmptrapd.conf(5) for the full list of tokens.

FORMAT SPECIFICATIONS

       snmptrapd  interprets format strings similarly to printf(3).  It understands the following
       formatting sequences:

           %%  a literal %

           %a  the contents of the agent-addr field of the PDU (v1 TRAPs only)

           %A  the hostname corresponding to the contents of the agent-addr field of the PDU,  if
               available,  otherwise  the  contents  of the agent-addr field of the PDU (v1 TRAPs
               only).

           %b  PDU transport address (Note: this is not necessarily an IPv4 address).
               Something like "[UDP: [172.16.10.12]:23456->[10.150.0.8]]"

           %B  PDU source hostname if available, otherwise PDU source address (see note above)

           %E  SNMPv3 context engine id

           %h  current hour on the local system

           %H  the hour field from the sysUpTime.0 varbind

           %j  current minute on the local system

           %J  the minute field from the sysUpTime.0 varbind

           %k  current second on the local system

           %K  the seconds field from the sysUpTime.0 varbind

           %l  current day of month on the local system

           %L  the day of month field from the sysUpTime.0 varbind

           %m  current (numeric) month on the local system

           %M  the numeric month field from the sysUpTime.0 varbind

           %N  enterprise string

           %P  security information from the PDU (community name for v1/v2c, user and context for
               v3)

           %q  trap sub-type (numeric, in decimal)

           %s  SNMP version number (0: v1, 1: v2c, 2: v3)

           %S  SNMPv3 security model version number

           %t  decimal  number  of  seconds  since  the  operating  system  epoch (as returned by
               time(2))

           %T  the value of the sysUpTime.0 varbind in seconds

           %u  SNMPv3 security name, or v1/v2c community name

           %v  list of variable-bindings from the notification payload.  These will be  separated
               by a tab, or by a comma and a blank if the alternate form is requested See also %V

           %V  specifies the variable-bindings separator. This takes a sequence of characters, up
               to the next % (to embed a % in the string, use \%)

           %w  trap type (numeric, in decimal)

           %W  trap description

           %y  current year on the local system

           %Y  the year field from the sysUpTime.0 varbind

       In addition to these values, an optional field width and precision may also be specified ,
       just as in printf(3), and a flag value. The following flags are supported:

           -   left justify

           0   use leading zeros

           #   use alternate form

       The "use alternate form" flag changes the behavior of various format string sequences:

              Time information will be displayed based on GMT (rather than the local timezone)

              The  variable-bindings  will be a comma-separated list (rather than a tab-separated
              one)

              The system uptime will be broken down into a human-meaningful format  (rather  than
              being a simple integer)

   Examples:
       To  get  a  message  like "14:03 TRAP3.1 from humpty.ucd.edu" you could use something like
       this:

              snmptrapd -P -F "%02.2h:%02.2j TRAP%w.%q from %A\n"

       If you want the same thing but in GMT rather than local time, use

              snmptrapd -P -F "%#02.2h:%#02.2j TRAP%w.%q from %A\n"

LISTENING ADDRESSES

       By default, snmptrapd listens for incoming SNMP TRAP and INFORM packets on UDP port 162 on
       all  IPv4  interfaces.  However, it is possible to modify this behaviour by specifying one
       or more listening addresses as arguments to snmptrapd.  See the snmpd(8) manual  page  for
       more information about the format of listening addresses.

NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB SUPPORT

       As  of net-snmp 5.0, the snmptrapd application supports the NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB.  It does
       this by opening an AgentX subagent connection to the master snmpd  agent  and  registering
       the  notification  log tables.  As long as the snmpd application is started first, it will
       attach itself to it and thus you should be able to view the  last  recorded  notifications
       via  the  nlmLogTable  and  nlmLogVariableTable.   See  the  snmptrapd.conf  file  and the
       "doNotRetainNotificationLogs"   token   for   turning   off   this   support.    See   the
       NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB for more details about the MIB itself.

EXTENSIBILITY AND CONFIGURATION

       See the snmptrapd.conf(5) manual page.