Hello! We use the “Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager Software (CAM)” as storage management software. The problem is that this manager can only send SNMP-Trap and we are not able to use SNMP-Get. I think, i get the same problem as described in this forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/operationsmanagergeneral/thread/fe480a77-515e-42ee-aad2-8312943e0fdb SCOM cannot discover SNMP-devices which are not providing the SNMP-GET-Method, because SCOM use this method for discovering devices. http://systemcentercentral.com/BlogDetails/tabid/143/IndexID/13018/Default.aspx Is there any workaround for this problem? Or is it possible to use a proxy-agent to catch the SNMP-Traps and send it to the OpsMgr?

Hi The forum url you give takes me to a page not found error but there is a similar thread here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/operationsmanagerauthoring/thread/dc9f274b-55cf-425c-9f6f-0260257bc982 My suggestions remains the same - considering using something like Kiwi syslog (also does SNMP) to catch the trap and write the information to the windows application log. And then have a rule \ monitor that looks for that event. The disadvantage is that you don't get the network device as an object in OpsMgr so you can't add it to Distributed Applications. Other alternatives are to discuss with your network teams to see if they use an application that you can link in with SCOM (e.g. solarwinds orion). Good Luck - if you do find a more sophisticated solution then please let us know. Cheers GrahamView OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/

Hi Graham Davies! Sorry about the link, it’s broken. But the URL is correct. Here is a working one: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/operationsmanagergeneral/thread/fe480a77-515e-42ee-aad2-8312943e0fdb Kiwi looks nice, but the license is too expensive, if we used them only to catch SNMP-Traps. I think we are going to use a debian system with a snmp-trap receiver and read out the syslog or send traps through the debian system to the SCOM. But I can’t imagine, that this is the philosophy of Microsofts SCOM :-) . I think this is a dirty workaround and I'm not sure whether the development team hasn’t consider that there are many devices which are only able to send traps and not able to use the SNMP-get method.

Hi Tim I agree that it isn't ideal - what current network monitoring tools do you have? Is there a way to directly integrate with OpsMgr that way? You can put in an enhancement request at http://connect.microsoft.com as this has come up a few times in the last couple of months. Cheers GrahamView OpsMgr tips and tricks at http://systemcentersolutions.wordpress.com/