SCOM 2007 Trap Enhancer + Management Pack

Capture SNMP Traps and Send the Rewritten Traps to an EventLog or Syslog Server.  Use the System Center Operations Manager Management Pack to Track and Alert on Incoming Messages.

• Features and Benefits
• System Center Integration
• Current Library of SNMP Traps
• Current SCOM 2007 Management Pack Alerts

The System Center Operations Manager 2007 Trap Enhancer (SCOM2K7 Trap Enhancer) provides a way to translate cryptic SNMP Traps or Informs into human readable text.  All traps are received, translated, and then written to the local EventLog and/or a Syslog server.  With the SCOM2K7 Trap Enhancer bundle, users of System Center Operations Manager can leverage these events through our SCOM2K7TE Managment Pack to provide extensive logging and alerting, with readable content within all alerts.

The SCOM2K7 Trap Enhancer, essentially, is a trap receiver that will read a text file, convert the contents of the trap, and then send that trap to the configured logs.  Running as a Windows Service, the SCOM2K7 Trap Enhancer relies on the SNMP Trap Service installed and running.  Traps are purposely written to the local EventLog to allow our SCOM2K7TE Management Pack to log events and alert based upon the received trap.  Traps are constructed in a way to allow System Center Operations Manager to easily identify the different priorities of incoming messages.

We are releasing a version of the Trap Enhancer: SCOM2K7 Trap Enhancer Bundle - This includes the application, the entire library of Trap Input Files, the SCOM2K7TE Management Pack, and support for 1 year.

How Does It Work?

The SCOM2K7 Trap Enhancer application runs as a Windows Service and integrates with the SNMP Trap service to receive all incoming SNMP Traps.  If a Trap Input File (TIF) library is installed, all traps are rewritten based upon the TIF that matches the trap.  By default, all rewritten traps are sent to the local EventLog.  Optionally, messages can be sent to a Syslog server, if configured.

The SCOM2K7 Trap Enhancer bundle includes a System Center Management Pack that will look at the specific EventLog entry and generate an alert.  If the Syslog component is configured, a message is sent to the Syslog server that contains the same content as the EventLog message.

Where is the Knowledge?

The Knowledge will arrive in a separate Management Pack.  The reason for this is that the current Management Pack got so big from all of the Monitors, we decided to keep the MP smaller and release the Knowledge separately.  Actually, the Alerts that are generated contain much of the content that will be in the Knowledge.  The information contained in the Alerts are very thorough and are pulled directly from the vendor's MIB.