Probably silly Q
Roger Heflin
rheflin at atipa.com
Wed Mar 8 19:43:25 UTC 2006
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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Robin Laing
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:42 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Probably silly Q
>
> Roger Heflin wrote:
> >>>Ok, I've inserted that line in services thats needed for
> >>
> >>that to work,
> >>
> >>>syslog 514/udp
> >>>
> >>>And added the -r option to OPTIONS in the syslog file in
> >>>/etc/sysconfig, SIGHUPed syslogd, and turned the routers
> >>
> >>forwarding of
> >>
> >>>the access log to the main 192.168.x.x address of that
> >>
> >>machine. But
> >>
> >>>nothing is appearing in either all.log or any other log
> >>
> >>with a recent timestamp.
> >>
> >>>Did I miss something? Or is the linksys BEFSR41 routers
> logging to
> >>>some other unk (udp/tcp) port besides 514?
> >>
> >>----
> >>Let's keep this on list OK?
> >>
> >>Firewall on Linux system blocking port 514 protocol UDP?
> >>
> >>Logging will go into /var/log/messages unless you redirect it via
> >>syslog.conf # man syslog.conf
> >>
> >
> >
> > Linksys sends snmptraps to the snmptrap port (161) (man snmptrapd)
> > this is a standard service that will listen to this port and do
> > whatever is configured with the data (save it to syslog, or to
> > elsewhere, and/or even execute scripts to process the
> incomming data),
> > it can be checkconfig'ed on and will put the messages into
> whatever
> > is configured by snmptrapd.
> >
> > I have been using it for years on both Windows and Linux.
> snmptraps
> > are os independent, where as syslog in typically unix only.
> >
> > You can also set the ip address to send it to, to be .255
> and it will
> > nicely broadcast on your local subnet.
> >
> > Roger
> >
>
> I didn't know that it was snmp that was used. When I looked
> into it I was continuously told that I needed special
> software. I didn't know about ethereal or tcdump at that time.
>
> Then any management software that reads snmptraps should get
> the data.
> Then the answer to the OP would be any snmp monitoring
> program, correct? What software do you use?
>
> I don't know much about snmp past the basics.
>
snmptrapd see "man snmptrapd", if it is not installed add it,
it comes default on a full fc4 install.
Roger
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