IOS as Proxy for Nexus 7

[Carlton Patterson]

Hello Joseph,

I reviewed your answer to a previous where you stated 'What you could do is use an IOS box as a proxy.  That is, send a trap using EEM from your NX-OS box, then have IOS do the telnet to the other NX-OS box to perform the necessary commands.'

Can you let me know how the above is achieved?

Cheers

Carlton

[Joe Clarke · Accepted solution]

You can have an EEM applet on NX-OS use the "action snmp-trap" command to send the trap to an IOS device registered as a trap receiver.  On the IOS device, you can have an EEM policy registered with the snmp-notification event detector that reacts to the trap, then uses either a raw TCP socket or wraps the IOS telnet/SSH CLI command to communicate with the NX-OS device to perform the necessary actions.