vutrapcon: A User-Friendly SNMP Trap Console

15 May 2005 1 min read

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Note: vutrapcon has been discontinued and is no longer available for download or supported.

vutrapcon is an SNMP trap console designed to make incoming SNMP traps easier to understand and act upon. It listens for traps, looks up relevant information in installed MIBs, and generates detailed, human-readable email notifications. The goal is to turn otherwise cryptic SNMP messages into clear and useful alerts.

vutrapcon is built on components from Net-SNMP, ensuring compatibility with standard SNMP tooling and MIB formats. When a trap is received, vutrapcon searches the available MIBs to resolve object identifiers into meaningful descriptions before composing the notification email.

Email notification settings—such as SMTP server, sender, and recipient addresses—can be provided via command-line options or configured in a vutrapcon.conf file located in the same directory as the executable. Installed MIB files are expected to reside in a dedicated mibs subdirectory.

Overall, vutrapcon provides a practical and approachable way to handle SNMP traps, especially in environments where clear, descriptive alerts are preferred over raw protocol output.

Project lifetime: May 2005 - Oct 2008