SNMP Traps

[swain90]

Hi All,

I'm looking at trying to create my own application for monitoring SNMP traps but would like to use a method of reading the information using the native Windows OS (not third party tools).

I'm wanting to know whether it's possible to have the network device send the SNMP trap to a Windows PC and have that trap information stored in the Windows event log or possibly registry?

Thanks

Swain90

 

[Armageus]

Seems a bit confusing what you are trying to do?

Either you are writing something to monitor SNMP traps (i.e. sit and listen for messages on UDP Port 162), or you are writing something to read from the Windows Event log.

SNMP cannot send directly to the Event log - you would have to write something to do that (by listening for them and then writing them to the event log).

You could then have a separate app to parse the event log and categorise the different messages out into e.g. Windows events, and SNMP forwarded events

 

[swain90]

Thanks for the reply

I was wondering whether the Windows SNMP Trap service was able to do something with them, i.e. write them to the event log/registry but sounds like this isn't the case

 

[Armageus]

If you've got the SNMP service installed, then you can use Evntwin to convert event log messages to SNMP

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/evntcmd
https://community.progress.com/s/article/SNMP-traps-for-windows-events

You can then centralise everything to a standard SNMP server for analysis

 

[swain90]

Interesting!

Thanks for your help @Armageus