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Michael Moser
Asked: 2013-06-20 09:02:24 +0800 CST

In need of a SNMP repeater

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I have a monitoring system that has primary/failover nodes for just about every aspect. I have configured anything that is able for multiple SNMP trap destinations, but I do have a number of devices that only support a single trap destination.

What I would like to do is configure a middleware service (On a RHEL/Linux server) that receives a UDP packet, and re-transmits it to multiple SNMP receivers, effectively acting as a repeater.

I'm not sure what services exist out there, but I ultimately I want to configure devices to trap to 1 single IP address and the device that owns that IP address be responsible for forwarding it everywhere else. If a given node is down it is of no consequence because the trap destinations are clustered anyway.

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2 Answers

  1. Such a thing is called a relay, not a repeater. Suprisingly, googling for snmp trap relay gives no useful results, the closest I got was a piece of code to implement such a thing on windows, which isn't very close at all.

    Looks like you need to build your own.

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  2. Best Answer

    http://code.google.com/p/samplicator/

    This simple program listens for UDP datagrams on a network port, and sends copies of these datagrams on to a set of destinations. Optionally, it can perform sampling, i.e. rather than forwarding every packet, forward only 1 in N. Another option is that it can "spoof" the IP source address, so that the copies appear to come from the original source, rather than the relay. Currently only supports IPv4.

    It can been used to distribute e.g. Netflow packets, SNMP traps (but not informs), or Syslog messages to multiple receivers.

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