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MG-SOFT Trap Ringer Professional Edition can receive SNMPv1,
SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 TRAP notification messages and SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 INFORM
notification messages (screen
shot). Due to its architecture and advanced design, Trap Ringer
successfully receives and processes hundreds of SNMP notifications per second.
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The Trap Ringer's main window can act either as a console viewer displaying real-time information
about received notifications or it can load and display the contents of any log file created by Trap Ringer
(e.g., a daily log file or a log file containing only filtered SNMP notifications).
The left panel of the main window contains a list of received
notification messages. Clicking a notification message in the list
displays all details of the message in the upper right panel. Clicking the
enterprise line or a binding in the upper right panel displays all information
about the given OID in the lower panel, as retrieved from the relevant MIB module
(full size screen shot).
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Support for IPv6. In addition to IPv4 and IPX transport protocols for SNMP
notification messages, Trap Ringer supports also IPv6 transport and can
receive SNMP notifications on any IPv4/UDP, IPv6/UDP and IPX port
(IPX protocol is supported in the Windows version only)(screen shot).
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Trap Ringer employs the client/server architecture in a sense
that the SNMP notification receiving module (server) is separated
from the application's GUI (client). The server module, which runs
uninterruptedly even when no user is logged on the operating system,
receives SNMP notifications from the network and processes them
according to applied configuration. It runs either as a service/daemon application
(on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Linux and Mac OS X),
or as a hidden console application (on Windows ME).
Trap Ringer client (running on the same computer as server) is a regular
GUI application that, when started, connects to the server and lets you
view and manage received SNMP notifications, as well as control and
configure both parts of the application.
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Assigning severity levels and colors to SNMP notifications. Trap Ringer lets
you assign different severity level icons and colors to SNMP Trap and Inform
notifications in order to indicate their importance and provide a better
overview of received SNMP notifications displayed in the main window
(screen shot).
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Support for diverse SNMP notification monitoring and user-notifying options.
The Output Manager Preferences window (screen
shot) provides a convenient interface for configuring how the notifications should
be logged or further processed. Received notification messages can be viewed directly
in the real-time console viewer (main window) and logged to any number of files.
The software can send information about received SNMP notifications in e-mail and SMS
messages to any number of recipients, as well as log it to the system log files.
SMS (Short Message Service) messages can be sent through connected mobile phone with a built-in modem
supporting the AT instruction set. Trap Ringer can also invoke external programs
upon receiving SNMP notifications in order to start any number of specific actions
by providing command line parameters for each of them,
as well as generate and periodically update any number of HTML report files
that let you monitor SNMP notifications remotely by using a Web browser.
(Web report screen shot).
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SNMP notification proxy forwarder.
In addition to performing various user notifying and logging operations,
Trap Ringer can also act as the SNMP notification proxy forwarder,
meaning that it can forward received SNMP notification messages to
other SNMP managers on the network. Moreover, it can also translate
received SNMP notification messages and forward them as SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c
or SNMPv3 Trap messages, or as SNMPv2c or SNMPv3 Inform messages
(screen shot). Trap Ringer
translates the notification parameters in accordance with the SNMP
Coexistence specification
(RFC 3584).
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Comprehensive notification filtering capabilities and Create Filter from
Notification Wizard. Trap Ringer provides an intuitive and user-friendly
interface that lets you easily configure complex filters to capture only
SNMP notifications with particular attributes
(screen shot).
SNMP Trap and Inform notifications can be filtered by virtually any
attribute or combination of attributes.
Furthermore, Trap Ringer now lets you select a received SNMP notification
in the main window and run the filter wizard to generate a filter from it in
order to enable od disable receiving SNMP notifications that have the same
attributes (screen shot).
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Trap Ringer can load any number of standard and private MIB modules
(screen shot) that were
previously compiled with the enclosed MG-SOFT MIB Compiler.
Trap Ringer retrieves data from MIB modules to provide more valuable and meaningful
information about received SNMP notifications to users.
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Trap Ringer Pro for Windows can generate event messages
containing information about received SNMP notifications
in the Application log of the system event logging facility
available on Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP,
Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista. Event messages can
then be audited with the Windows Event Viewer tool
(screen shot).
Trap Ringer Pro for Linux and Mac, on the other hand, incorporate
the ability to generate syslog messages instead of Windows
event log messages and send them to the local syslogd daemon,
which logs messages to the system log files (typically located
in the /var/log directory) and optionally forwards them to remote syslog servers
(screen shot).
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Support for the CFB-AES-128 privacy protocol (screen shot).
The standard SNMPv3 User-based Security Model implemented in Trap
Ringer is now enhanced with the strong 128-bit CFB-AES encryption
protocol, allowing Trap Ringer to receive SNMPv3 Trap and Inform
messages encrypted with this protocol.
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Fully customizable Trap List window panel view (screen shot).
Trap Ringer now lets users fully customize what attributes of received SNMP notification will be displayed
in the Trap List window panel of the main window (using the multi-column or the advanced
single-column display mode).
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Export to CSV files. The information about received SNMP Trap and Inform notifications can now be exported
from Trap Ringer to CSV (comma separated value) ASCII files for external viewing or post-processing purposes
(screen shot).
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Trap Ringer can resolve SNMPv1 enterprise-specific Traps not only through the Trap number value,
but also through the value of the Enterprise field in the Trap PDU in order to correctly identify such Trap messages.
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IP addresses from the received notifications can be resolved through DNS.
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The software lets you fully customize what attributes of received SNMP notifications will be
included into e-mail and SMS messages, events logged in the system log files, Web reports generated,
and external applications launched by Trap Ringer.
The following is an example of a generated e-mail message that
was sent by Trap Ringer to the specified list of recipients
when it received a generic 'coldStart' SNMPv2c Trap notification message:
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Flexible and robust application design. Intuitive and easy to use user interface incorporating the
latest industry trends in the user interface design
(screen shot).
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New and updated MIB modules. Trap Ringer installs 224 standard MIB
files, with roughly 17000 OID, textual convention and SNMP
notification definitions.
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Significantly updated and enhanced User Manual with numerous hints
and usage examples will help you get the most out of MG-SOFT's
Trap Ringer Professional Edition.
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Much more ...
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