Event Integration From 3rd-party Monitoring Tools - Part 8: SNMP trap adapter configuration from command line

We discussed how to configure SNMP trap adapter using GUI in the last post. What if you can't find a server with no TOMCAT running to install SNMP Configuration Manager?  You do have an option to configure SNMP trap adapter from command line.

Method 2: From command line

In order to configure SNMP trap adapter from command line, you need to download and install open source net-snmp package from http://www.net-snmp.org/download.html

Once it is installed, define an environment variable SNMP_DIR pointing to net-snmp installation direcotry.  For example:

set SNMP_DIR=C:\SNMPAdapter\ucd-snmp-4.2.3\usr

Then copy your MIB file to %SNMP_DIR%\mibs\ directory.  Run the following command:

mib2map.pl -m ALL -M "%SNMP_DIR%\mibs;%SNMP_DIR%\share\snmp\mibs" -s %SNMP_DIR%\bin\snmptranslate.exe

Where mib2map.pl is a perl script already installed in your %MCELL_HOME%\bin\ directory as part of BMC Event Adapters.

In the current directory, you should see the following 4 files generated as the result of running the above mib2map.pl command:

mcsnmptrapdmib.dat

mcsnmptrapdmib.map

mcsnmptrapdmib.baroc

mcsnmptrapdmibe.baroc

Now you have generated the above 4 files either from GUI or command line, copy both mcsnmptrapdmib.baroc and mcsnmptrapdmibe.baroc to %MCELL_DIR%\etc\<cell_name>\kb\classes\ directory.  Add mcsnmptrapdmibe followed by mcsnmptrapdmib to .load file in %MCELL_DIR%\etc\<cell_name>\kb\classes\ directory.  The <cell_name> here needs to match the value of parameter ServerName in your mxca.conf file.

Copy both mcsnmptrapdmib.dat and mcsnmptrapdmib.map to %MCELL_DIR%\etc\ directory. Rename mcsnmptrapdmib.dat to mcsnmptrapd.dat.  Rename mcsnmptrapdmib.map to mcsnmptrapd.map.

Recompile the cell.  Restart the cell.  Stop and then start SNMP trap adapter after a couple of minutes.  Now you can configure your 3rd-party monitoring software to send SNMP traps to your SNMP trap adapter.  You should see events with class names defined in the MIB file shown up in your cell.