SNMP Trap Forwarding

The alerts generated by Netflow Anlayzer can be forwarded as a trap message to any manager application. This helps in consolidating all the network alerts in a single place in the manager application. 

The steps for the manager application to get the traps, forwarded by Netflow Analyzer, are;

1. Configure a particular port in the manager application to listen for SNMP traps 
2. In Netflow Analyzer alert profile form, select alert action as 'SNMP Trap' and specify <Server Name>:<Port No.>:<Community> 
   • <Server Name> - The name or IP address of the server in which the manager application is running 
   • <Port No.> - The port number at which the manager application is listening for the traps 
   • <Community> - The community string of the manager application 

After the configuration, one trap is sent to the manager application, for every alert generated. A trap contains an OID and a system description.  

The steps for the manager application to decode the meaning of each of the OIDs, are;

• Copy ADVENTNET-NETFLOWANALYZER-MIB file from <NetFlow Analyzer Home>/lib directory and save it in the system where the manager application is running
• Load the MIB file, ADVENTNET-NETFLOWANALYZER-MIB in the manager application 
• Make the required configuration in the manager application, such that the OIDs are parsed and meaningful info is got