The SNMP Trap Forwarder is designed to receive SNMP traps and forward each trap to one or more destinations. The data content of the traps can also be written to a program that is spawned by the application. Decisions about how to handle SNMP messages that have been received are made according to a set of rules and associated actions. The application supports logging via syslog, dumping of network data, and statistics reporting.

Network management systems that utilize the SNMP protocol can face various difficult issues in the handling of trap messages:

• It is often necessary to redirect traps to one of a number of management applications for further processing,
• It can be useful to send multiple copies of a trap to different management applications, either for redundancy or for other purposes,
• It is often necessary to redirect traps from the public internet to hosts inside a private subnetwork.

The Xenadyne SNMP Trap Forwarder provides a general, flexible solution to these problems. The Trap Forwarder is a software tool that will receive traps and forward them, based on a set of rules, to another destination, without modifying the source address. This tool will forward packets intelligently based on the source and destination addresses and ports, and it is capable of making duplicate copies of traps in order to support redundant configurations.

The Xenadyne SNMP Trap Forwarder is available for:

• Solaris/Sparc
• Linux/x86
• FreeBSD/x86

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