Logging and SNMP difference

[mahmoodmkl]

Hi

Can anyone explain me the differnces among them.As per my understanding SNMP is used to send snmp traps to the NMS.

Please help on this issue.

Thanks

Mahmood

[leighharrison]

Hi there,

This all depends on your setup. If you're logging to host, then it will send the system messages that you have specified in the logging "level" - ranging from 0 - 7 (informational to debug), 7 being the highest.

SNMP traps are a different thing. They will fire off a trap to a host when an event happens or a threshold is reached.

They are similar in that if an interface goes down, then the node will log a syslog event and send a trap (if configured to do so). However, the log message will be a message and the snmp trap will send a trap including the OID (object identifier).

You can do a LOT more with snmp than you can with log messages, such as send messages when an interface hits more than 50% load, etc.

Oh - there is a command so that you can send log messages as snmp traps too ;-)

Hope that helps a bit,

LH

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[danielmassey]

Hi,

SNMP is the Simple Network Management Protocol.The SNMP protocol is used by network management systems to communicate with network elements.

Every Time when a incident happen, all are logged in the local Device. These logs can also be sent to a seperate syslog server.

Regards

Daniel Massey