Recommended SNMP traps

[imran.moulvi]

Hello All,

We are planning to implement SNMP monitoring in our network. Are there any recommended SNMP traps that should be enabled on the devices so we dont get clobbered with thousands of traps.

We have the following devices on our network-

Cisco 7206 with ATM interface, running BGP, EIGRP, PBR.

Cisco 6509, 6513 switches- Running EIGRP, Cisco FWSM

Cisco 1841 routers- have serial links, running BGP, Frame relay.

Cisco 2800 router- acting as DHCP server

Cisco ASA - 1) Perimiter firewall, 2) SSLVPN firewall.

We wish to monitor not only the external parameters like the circuits, routing protocols etc,, but also hardware and environmental parameters if possible.

If someone can recommend a list of traps that should be enabled for these devices, I wold much appreciate it.

Regards,

Imran.

[Joe Clarke]

Clearly you should test and refine this list based on your run time experience, but if you enable these trap keywords, that should provide you with a good set of signal to manage.

General:

snmp

entity

envmon

cpu

memory

EIGRP:

eigrp

BGP:

bgp

Frame-relay:

frame-relay

Some of your routing and DHCP management may only be possible with IP SLA and the Embedded Event Manager.  In that case, you may want to enable the following two keywords, which will allow you to build IP SLA collectors and EEM policies that can generate SNMP traps:

ipsla

event-manager

For the ASA, enable the following trap keywords:

entity

ipsec

snmp