Now that I've (locally) discovered the use of perl and the Net:SNMP module to talk to my TC (HiPer) chassis, I've recently been feeling all godlike and stuff. Of course, when a human experiences a taste of godhood, the PowersThatBe quickly queue up a lesson in humility. Anyway, I'm trying to play with SNMP traps and I must be missing something obvious. Here's the deal: 1) I run snmptrapd (from cmu-snmp-utils-3.5-3) on a handy linux box, telling it to both print the trap and dump inbound packets. 2) I verify operation of #1 by running snmptrap to generate a couple of arbitrary traps. Works great. 3) I go into TCM, pick a HiPerDSP card (selecting the LEDs on the span), and click "Fault->Trap Settings" and select "Trap Enables" 4) There, I set a few choice ones to "enableTrap". Specifically, "Red Alarm", "Loss of Signal", and "Physical State Change". Then I click "Set" and "Ok" to set it and exit. 5) Next, I click "Fault->Trap Destinations", and add an entry for the aforementioned linux box running snmptrapd. 6) I physically unplug the span from the HiPerDSP. Amazingly enough, the LEDS suddenly reflect a Red Alarm. (: 7) The amazement turns to disappointment when I see that my snmptrapd didn't hear anything. Due to my lack of real understanding of the trap destination configuration (umm, not the need for, you understand *grin*), I tried a few different things there. Even though snmptrapd appears to not give a whit about the community string, I tried three: nothing, junk, and the same as my NMC's community. And since I can't find anything in the docs that explains the "Annotation" entry, I also tried nothing, an integer '1', and an arbitrary string. I also verified that the linux box had a listener on the udp:snmp-trap port. All else failed, so it was time to consult the documentation. (: The docs basically told me to do all the stuff I did already. And, typical of docs, stopped short from answering the real question (like WTF is expected for "Annotation"). So, before I scrap the whole idea for now (being unwilling to go to the bother of sticking a hub in between the TC and the linux box so I can stick another packet-sniffin' box in there (a PIA that needs to be done because my LAN is point2point switched ethernet...useless to sniff from other segments)), I thought I'd ask here in case there was anything obvious that I'm leaving out (like maybe the NAC needs a reboot for the trap destination change to take effect or some other tripe). Or if I'm falling into some sort of a hidden, umm, trap. If anyone can slap me with a clue stick, I'd be grateful. (: - To unsubscribe to usr-tc, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe usr-tc" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message.