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SNMPTRAPD(8)			    Net-SNMP			    SNMPTRAPD(8)

NAME
     snmptrapd - Receive and log SNMP trap messages.

SYNOPSIS
     snmptrapd [OPTIONS] [LISTENING ADDRESSES]

DESCRIPTION
     snmptrapd	is  an SNMP application that receives and logs SNMP TRAP and IN-
     FORM messages.

     Note: the default is to listen on UDP port  162  on  all  IPv4  interfaces.
     Since 162 is a privileged port, snmptrapd must typically be run as root.

OPTIONS
     -a      Ignore authenticationFailure traps.

     -A      Append to the log file rather than truncating it.

	     Note  that this needs to come before any -Lf options that it should
	     apply to.

     -c FILE
	     Read FILE as a configuration file (or  a  comma-separated	list  of
	     configuration files).

     -C      Do not read any configuration files except the one optionally spec-
	     ified by the -c option.

     -d      Dump (in hexadecimal) the sent and received SNMP packets.

     -D[TOKEN[,...]]
	     Turn  on  debugging output for the given TOKEN(s).  Try ALL for ex-
	     tremely verbose output.

     -f      Do not fork() from the calling shell.

     -F FORMAT
	     When logging to standard output, use the format in the string  FOR-
	     MAT.  See the section FORMAT SPECIFICATIONS below for more details.

     -h, --help
	     Display a brief usage message and then exit.

     -H      Display  a  list of configuration file directives understood by the
	     trap daemon and then exit.

     -I [-]INITLIST
	     Specifies which modules should (or should not) be initialized  when
	     snmptrapd	starts	up.  If the comma-separated INITLIST is preceded
	     with a '-', it is the list of modules that should not  be	started.
	     Otherwise	this  is  the  list  of  the only modules that should be
	     started.

	     To get a list of compiled modules, run snmptrapd with the arguments
	     -Dmib_init -H (assuming debugging support has been compiled in).

     -L[efos]
	     Specify where logging output should be directed (standard error  or
	     output,  to  a  file  or  via syslog).  See LOGGING OPTIONS in snm-
	     pcmd(1) for details.

     -m MIBLIST
	     Specifies a colon separated list of MIB modules to  load  for  this
	     application.   This  overrides  the environment variable MIBS.  See
	     snmpcmd(1) for details.

     -M DIRLIST
	     Specifies a colon separated list of directories to search for MIBs.
	     This overrides the environment variable  MIBDIRS.	 See  snmpcmd(1)
	     for details.

     -n      Do  not  attempt  to translate source addresses of incoming packets
	     into hostnames.

     -p FILE
	     Save the process ID of the trap daemon in FILE.

     -O [abeEfnqQsStTuUvxX]
	     Specifies how MIB objects and other  output  should  be  displayed.
	     See  the  section	OUTPUT OPTIONS in the snmpcmd(1) manual page for
	     details.

     -t      Do not log traps to syslog.  This disables logging to syslog.  This
	     is useful if  you	want  the  snmptrapd  application  to  only  run
	     traphandle hooks and not to log any traps to any location.

     -v, --version
	     Print version information for the trap daemon and then exit.

     -x ADDRESS
	     Connect to the AgentX master agent on the specified address, rather
	     than the default "/var/agentx/master".  See snmpd(8) for details of
	     the format of such addresses.

     -X      Do not connect to a AgentX master agent

     --name="value"
	     Allows  one  to  specify  any  token  ("name") supported in the sn-
	     mptrapd.conf file and sets its value to "value". Overrides the cor-
	     responding token in the snmptrapd.conf file. See  snmptrapd.conf(5)
	     for the full list of tokens.

FORMAT SPECIFICATIONS
     snmptrapd interprets format strings similarly to printf(3).  It understands
     the following formatting sequences:

	 %%  a literal %

	 %a  the contents of the agent-addr field of the PDU (v1 TRAPs only)

	 %A  the  hostname corresponding to the contents of the agent-addr field
	     of the PDU, if available, otherwise the contents of the  agent-addr
	     field of the PDU (v1 TRAPs only).

	 %b  PDU  transport  address  (Note: this is not necessarily an IPv4 ad-
	     dress).
	     Something like "[UDP: [172.16.10.12]:23456->[10.150.0.8]]"

	 %B  PDU source hostname if available, otherwise PDU source address (see
	     note above)

	 %E  SNMPv3 context engine id

	 %h  current hour on the local system

	 %H  the hour field from the sysUpTime.0 varbind

	 %j  current minute on the local system

	 %J  the minute field from the sysUpTime.0 varbind

	 %k  current second on the local system

	 %K  the seconds field from the sysUpTime.0 varbind

	 %l  current day of month on the local system

	 %L  the day of month field from the sysUpTime.0 varbind

	 %m  current (numeric) month on the local system

	 %M  the numeric month field from the sysUpTime.0 varbind

	 %N  enterprise string

	 %P  security information from the PDU (community name for v1/v2c,  user
	     and context for v3)

	 %q  trap sub-type (numeric, in decimal)

	 %s  SNMP version number (0: v1, 1: v2c, 2: v3)

	 %S  SNMPv3 security model version number

	 %t  decimal  number of seconds since the operating system epoch (as re-
	     turned by time(2))

	 %T  the value of the sysUpTime.0 varbind in seconds

	 %u  SNMPv3 security name, or v1/v2c community name

	 %v  list of variable-bindings from  the  notification	payload.   These
	     will be separated by a tab, or by a comma and a blank if the alter-
	     nate form is requested See also %V

	 %V  specifies the variable-bindings separator. This takes a sequence of
	     characters, up to the next % (to embed a % in the string, use \%)

	 %w  trap type (numeric, in decimal)

	 %W  trap description

	 %y  current year on the local system

	 %Y  the year field from the sysUpTime.0 varbind

     In addition to these values, an optional field width and precision may also
     be  specified , just as in printf(3), and a flag value. The following flags
     are supported:

	 -   left justify

	 0   use leading zeros

	 #   use alternate form

     The "use alternate form" flag changes the behavior of various format string
     sequences:

	    Time information will be displayed based on GMT (rather than the lo-
	    cal timezone)

	    The variable-bindings will be a comma-separated list (rather than  a
	    tab-separated one)

	    The system uptime will be broken down into a human-meaningful format
	    (rather than being a simple integer)

   Examples:
     To  get  a  message  like "14:03 TRAP3.1 from humpty.ucd.edu" you could use
     something like this:

	    snmptrapd -P -F "%02.2h:%02.2j TRAP%w.%q from %A\n"

     If you want the same thing but in GMT rather than local time, use

	    snmptrapd -P -F "%#02.2h:%#02.2j TRAP%w.%q from %A\n"

LISTENING ADDRESSES
     By default, snmptrapd listens for incoming SNMP TRAP and INFORM packets  on
     UDP  port	162  on  all IPv4 interfaces.  However, it is possible to modify
     this behaviour by specifying one or more listening addresses  as  arguments
     to  snmptrapd.  See the snmpd(8) manual page for more information about the
     format of listening addresses.

NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB SUPPORT
     As of net-snmp  5.0,  the	snmptrapd  application	supports  the  NOTIFICA-
     TION-LOG-MIB.  It does this by opening an AgentX subagent connection to the
     master snmpd agent and registering the notification log tables.  As long as
     the  snmpd  application  is  started first, it will attach itself to it and
     thus you should be able to view the last  recorded  notifications	via  the
     nlmLogTable  and  nlmLogVariableTable.  See the snmptrapd.conf file and the
     "doNotRetainNotificationLogs" token for turning off this support.	See  the
     NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB for more details about the MIB itself.

EXTENSIBILITY AND CONFIGURATION
     See the snmptrapd.conf(5) manual page.

SEE ALSO
     snmpcmd(1),  snmpd(8),  printf(3),  snmptrapd.conf(5),  syslog(8), traptoe-
     mail(1), variables(5)

V5.9.5.2			   27 Apr 2014			    SNMPTRAPD(8)

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