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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
       INFORM 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
	       specified 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
	       extremely verbose output.

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

       -F FORMAT
	       When  logging  to standard output, use the format in the	string
	       FORMAT.	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 argu-
	       ments -Dmib_init	-H (assuming debugging support has  been  com-
	       piled in).

       -L[efos]
	       Specify where logging output should be directed (standard error
	       or  output,  to	a file or via syslog).	See LOGGING OPTIONS in
	       snmpcmd(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	 pack-
	       ets 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
	       corresponding   token  in  the  snmptrapd.conf  file.  See  sn-
	       mptrapd.conf(5) for the full list of tokens.

FORMAT SPECIFICATIONS
       snmptrapd interprets format strings similarly to	printf(3).  It	under-
       stands 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
	       address).
	       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
	       returned	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
	       alternate form is requested See also %V

	   %V  specifies the variable-bindings separator.  This	 takes	a  se-
	       quence  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 follow-
       ing 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
	      local 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 informa-
       tion 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  notifica-
       tions  via  the	nlmLogTable  and  nlmLogVariableTable.	 See  the  sn-
       mptrapd.conf file and the "doNotRetainNotificationLogs" token for turn-
       ing 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)

V5.9.4.pre2			  27 Apr 2014			  SNMPTRAPD(8)

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