SNMP Trap Enhancer is Available!

Today JaxMP announces the release of our first tool targeted to users of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, the SNMP Trap Enhancer.  The SNMP Trap Enhancer is a unique Windows service appliance that works with or without a System Center infrastructure to centrally collect SNMP traps or inform messages, enrich the event meta-data and then write them to a log file.

When receiving traps generically with System Center Operations Manager the contents of the trap messages are very cryptic and usually require a manual reference to determine all the values contained within the message.  The SNMP Trap Enhancer provides a way to capture the traps, lookup and transform the events, and then send that new message to a local EventLog and/or a Syslog server.  The service "translates" all the SNMP event codes into very human readable descriptions which improves operational views and reporting.  While all SNMP event descriptions are customizable, a set of prefabricated files have been assembled based upon the naming conventions and descriptions from referenced MIB files, these are referred to as Trap Input Files (TIF).

Premium Subscribers receive a complete set of Cisco Trap Input Files (TIF) as well as many Standard RFC compatible TIFs.  Subscribers with current software assurance enjoy the benefit of receiving all new vendor files and updates to the TIF library.