[INUG-Users] SNMP packets coming from NAT'd addresses...

[Jacob Steinberger]

http://looper.sourceforge.net

Jacob

> I have checked out the archive page you mentioned.  Can you guide me to a
> place that has this software?  I am considering all options at this point.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-admin at netcoolusers.org
> [mailto:users-admin at netcoolusers.org]On Behalf Of Marquess, Dustin
> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 11:05 AM
> To: users at netcoolusers.org
> Subject: RE: [INUG-Users] SNMP packets coming from NAT'd addresses...
>
>
> Out of the box looper does simple trap forwarding.  It is possible to have
> it do trap rewriting, however.  Mohit was nice enough to send me
> instructions on how to do it.  I would forward the instructions on, but
> Exchange 'helpfully' deleted the email a long time ago :).  You can,
> however
> find it in the mailing list archives at
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=480 .  They're near
> the top, so you shouldn't have any problems finding them.
>
> We've had to do this because some Tiara equipment we own has really broken
> SNMP packets and doesn't even include the IP address in agentaddr field of
> the SNMP packet.  The other advantage of using looper is that we can take
> one set of traps and send it to all of our multiple NMS's at once,
> reducing
> bandwidth requirements.
>
> Of course if you're only using Netcool to process traps, then Victor's
> idea
> would probably be easier :).
>
> -Dustin
>
>
>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jacob Steinberger [mailto:trefalgar at realitybytes.ne
> t]
>> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 9:22 AM
>> To: users at netcoolusers.org
>>
>> I know Netcool can't do it. I've heard of people doing things
>> like this though, attaching extra information to an SNMP
>> packet - I want to say they were using looper, maybe Dustin
>> can correct me if I'm wrong.
>>
>> Jacob
>>
>> > Ladies and Gents,
>> >
>> > Question:
>> >
>> > Is Netcool capable of taking an SNMP packet and attaching
>> the NAT'd ip
>> > address to the header of the packet and dumping the private ip that
>> > the event originated from?  If not Netcool, is there some
>> software out
>> > there that is capable of this functionality?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Andre' McKnight
>> > ATAC Support
>> > 919-562-2677
>> > andre at sprintsvc.net