CiscoWorks LMS: not receveing certain SNMP traps

[Marian Hercek]

CiscoWorks LMS 4.0.1 (I know it's old and unsupported).

Problem: not receiving certain SNMP traps.

For example: I receive trap like "STP new root" but not like "port put to err-disabled" or my custom traps (produced by EEM scripts).

I've investigated my situation and found out that switch sends traps and they reach* LMS but somehow LMS ignores them (there's no trace of them in GUI). I've read that some traps just pass through LMS but my traps are very important and I need to know about them.

* I did Wireshark capture on LMS machine.

I'd like to know how to debug receiving of SNMP traps in LMS:

1. which specific debugs need to be enabled,
2. which specific log files need to be examined.

[Michel Hegeraat]

LMS uses DFM to process certain traps.

All traps it deems unimportant are dropped.

If you want to use the LMS GUI you can have you device send a SYSLOG message rather than a trap.

use logging source command to make the management interface send the message.

Then there is a GUI that allows you to launch an action on a message

Cheers,

Michel