Forward SNMP traps from Spectrum to another Network Monitoring System (NMS)

Products

• CA eHealth
• CA Spectrum

Issue/Introduction

This document will explain how to forward traps from Spectrum to another Network Monitoring System. 

Environment

Release : 10.3.2 / 10.4

Component : Spectrum Core / SpectroSERVER

Resolution

• Spectrum does not have any native trap forwarding capabilities.
• You can use the TrapX utility installed local to the Spectrum Server to listen on UDP Port 162 which is a well know trap receiver destination.
• TrapX can be configured to forward the traps to multiple destinations\trap receivers.
• You can then change Spectrum to listen on a different UDP port and receive the forwarded traps from TrapX.
• The Spectrum trap port is defined under %SPECROOT%\SS\.vnmrc file 

• Once the snmp_trap_port is updated Spectrum server needs to be restarted.

Additional Information

TrapX Installation and Configuration Guide