I am trying to receive a trap generated by a cisco router on my VM- Ubuntu 14.04. I can do a snmwalk so I guess snmp is working fine but I am not able to receive the traps generated by router on my VM.
a@ubuntu:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/snmpd restart
* Restarting network management services:
a@ubuntu:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/snmpd status
* snmpd is running
* snmptrapd is running
Here is what I have inside files-
/etc/default/snmpd-
export MIBS=
SNMPDRUN=yes
SNMPDOPTS='-Lsd -Lf /dev/null -u snmp -I -smux -p /var/run/snmpd.pid -c /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf'
TRAPDRUN=yes
# snmptrapd options (use syslog).
TRAPDOPTS='-n -On -t -Lsd -p /var/run/snmptrapd.pid'
/etc/snmp/-
snmpd.conf-
rocommunity public
snmptrapd.conf-
disableAuthorization yes
snmp.conf-
mibs:
The command I am running for viewing the traps on VM-
a@ubuntu:/etc/snmp$ sudo snmptrapd -f -Lo -c snmptrapd.conf
couldn't open udp:162 -- errno 98 ("Address already in use")
I am confused since the port is being used by snmptrap itself-
a@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/services|grep 162
snmp-trap 162/tcp snmptrap # Traps for SNMP
snmp-trap 162/udp snmptrap
a@ubuntu:~$ sudo netstat -lnp| grep 162
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:162 0.0.0.0:* 6216/snmptrapd
a@ubuntu:~$ ps -ef | grep snmptrapd
root 6216 2076 0 10:43 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/snmptrapd -Lsd -p /var/run/snmptrapd.pid
a 6493 2667 0 11:47 pts/8 00:00:00 grep --color=auto snmptrapd
Generating a trap from windows using SnmpTrapGen.exe leads to the same error.
Is there any way of solving this issue? I have googled a lot and stuck on this for days, any help will be very much appreciated. Thanks a lot in advance!!
Port 162 can listen only with an application. If you get this error , you have an app already running which listens port 162 , those can be snmptrapd service or your own application for snmp traps. You should close one of the applications.