How to send snmp traps from the rhev-h system to the monitoring tools?

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Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor 6.x (rhevh-6.x comes with snmp V3 by default)

Issue

  • How to send snmp traps from the rhev-h system to the monitoring tools?

Resolution

  • To configure snmp on rhev-h refer KB-62764.
  • Then make the following entries under the snmpd.conf file to send the traps from the rhev-h system:
trapsess xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx public
iquerySecName root
monitor -u root -r 30 "PowerStatus" <expression>

NOTE: In the above trapsess can be replaced by trap2sink if want to receive the traps in snmp v2 format.

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