Hi,

I'm running Centos 6.8 with NET-SNMP 5.5 and am trying to configure snmptrapd to place incoming traps into a spool directory. My snmptrapd.conf file looks like this:

logOption -Lf /pathmaster/incoming
format1 Trap from %B at %h:%j:%k %l.%m.%y %N %v\n
format2 Trap from %B at %h:%j:%k %l.%m.%y %N %v\n
authCommunity log,execute,net public
#disableAuthorization yes
traphandle default php /pathmaster/traparrive.php

However I never see the traps arrive in the /pathmaster/incoming folder. I've set the directory permissions to 777 for testing (I'm on a closed network anyway) but still no luck.

Any suggestions?

Many Thanks

First thing I'd check would be your firewall. You may be blocking incoming traffic on port 162. If you want to do an unsafe test, as root, run "iptable -L" to list any firewall rules. If you see any, run "iptables -F" to remove them. This will NOT be a good thing for a server to go into production with, but for a quick test, it'll at least let you see if that's the culprit.

From there, you can check this page https://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_mkeventd_traps.html for some simple things to try/tests. And obvious question....you've configured snmptrapd...did you start the service?