Re: [opennms-devel] Trap varbind issue

[David H. <da...@op...>]

On Oct 7, 2006, at 8:43 AM, Mike Huot wrote:

> I know there has been talk of redefining what and event is.  Maybe
> this problem adds to that thought process.  I am at a total loss on
> how to proceed with this.  I need to proceed with this for my day job
> though.  I am looking to the devel community to help push me out of
> this hole.

Mike,

Textual conventions were introduced with SMIv2 and are something that  
any modern day NMS with a MIB compiler should be able to handle, and  
certainly so should OpenNMS.  I suggest that we add new Elements to  
eventconf.xml defining textual conventions and our mib2opennms could  
be enhanced to add them when found in a MIB definition file.

OpenNMS trapd code currently looks to the eventconf file to determine  
whether the trap should be processed into an event (code added by DJ  
early last spring).  We could have the trap processing code (the part  
of the code that converts to traps to events) process any defined  
textual conventions in eventconf as in the case you describe.

These are really just my initial thoughts and we should write a unit  
test for this use case.

-David


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