STRAPS(8)

NAME
straps - a simple SNMP trap-sink

SYNOPSIS
straps

DESCRIPTION
The straps trap demon listens to the snmp-trap port 162/udp (or to the port your snmp-trap entry in your services map tells it) and forwards the received events to connected clients (like scotty ). Because the port 162 needs root access and the port can be opend only one time, the use of a simple forwarding demon is a good choice. The straps demon is installed with suid root and can therefore started by any application and user and does not need run at boot time (but may be). The client can connect to the AF_UNIX domain stream socket /tmp/.straps and will get the trap-packets in raw binary form: 4 bytes data-length (in host-byte-order) followed by the data-bytes of the packet.

SEE ALSO
scotty(1),tkined(1)

BUGS
The client descriptor should be checked about writability.

AUTHORS
Kaept'n Koerg and Bert Nase (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de and schoenfr@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de).