How does an Agent know where to send a Trap?
I’ve noticed on the comp.protocols.snmp mailing list that the question “how does an agent know where to send traps” (short answer is “its implementation specific”, long answer is, indeed, long, but has been well answered numerous times) is, indeed, aFrequently Asked Question. Any chance of adding it to your quite impressive FAQ posting? T. Max Devlin [Editor’s Note: What T. Max is getting at here is that the trap destination IP address is not represented in MIB-II, so how can the agent know what it is? The answer is that most agents require an external configuration process to take place before they can be put into service, and that is how the IP address, among other interesting parameters, is set in the agent. How this setup is actually done varies among agent developers.] 1.10.
