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| .TH SNMPTRAPD 8 "16 July 1994" |
| .UC 4 |
| .SH NAME |
| snmptrapd - Receive and log snmp trap messages. |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| snmptrapd [-h] [ -P ] [ -s ] [ -p port ] [ -d ] [ -e ] [ -q ] [-D] [-l [d0-7]] [-f] [-S] [-H] [-a] |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| Snmptrapd |
| is an SNMP application that receives and logs snmp trap messages |
| sent to the SNMP-TRAP port (162) on the local machine. |
| .PP |
| The log messages are of the form: |
| .br |
| .I Sep 17 22:39:52 suffern snmptrapd: 128.2.13.41: |
| .I Cold Start Trap (0) Uptime: |
| .I 8 days, 0:35:46 |
| .PP |
| .I Snmptrapd |
| must be run as root so that UDP port 162 can be opened. |
| .SH COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS |
| .IP "-h" |
| Print a usage summary and exit. |
| .IP "-P" |
| Print the logged messages to stdout. |
| .IP "-p port" |
| Specifies the port to run on, if the default 162 is not desired. |
| .IP "-s" |
| Log the messages to syslog(8). These syslog messages are sent with |
| the level of LOG_WARNING, and to the LOG_LOCAL0 facility (by |
| default). The demon will also fork away from its caller when |
| the syslog facilities are used. |
| .IP "-l [d0-7]" |
| Specifies the syslog facility to use, demon or local[0-7]. |
| .IP "-S" |
| Requests short object identifiers on output: MIB-name:suffix, i.e. |
| .I system.sysDescr.0 |
| will be printed as |
| .I SNMPv2-MIB:sysDescr.0 |
| .IP "-a" |
| makes |
| .I snmptrapd |
| ignore AuthenticationFailure traps |
| .IP "-d" |
| Causes the application to dump input and output packets. |
| .IP "-q" |
| Causes the application to use a quicker, less verbose output form. |
| .IP "-D" |
| Turn debugging output on. |
| .IP "-f" |
| Don't fork away from the caller when using syslog(). |
| .SH EXTENSIBILITY AND CONFIGURATION |
| See the snmpdtrapd.conf(5) manual page. |
| .PP |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| syslog(8), variables(5) |
