MG-SOFT Trap Ringer Professional Edition is a program for monitoring SNMPv1, SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 TRAP notification messages and SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 INFORM notification messages sent by arbitrary devices on the network. It lets you manage received notifications in various ways and includes mechanisms for informing users about the received SNMP notifications. The software is available for MS Windows, Linux and Mac OS X platforms.

Features

• MG-SOFT Trap Ringer Professional Edition can receive SNMPv1, SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 TRAP notification messages and SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 INFORM notification messages.
• Due to its architecture and advanced design, Trap Ringer successfully receives and processes hundreds of SNMP notifications per second.
  The Trap Ringer's main window can act either as a console viewer displaying real-time information about received notifications or it can load and display the contents of any log file created by Trap Ringer (e.g., a daily log file or a log file containing only filtered SNMP notifications).
• The left panel of the main window contains a list of received notification messages. Clicking a notification message in the list displays all details of the message in the upper right panel. Clicking the enterprise line or a binding in the upper right panel displays all information about the given OID in the lower panel, as retrieved from the relevant MIB module .
• Support for IPv6. In addition to IPv4 and IPX transport protocols for SNMP notification messages, Trap Ringer supports also IPv6 transport and can receive SNMP notifications on any IPv4/UDP, IPv6/UDP and IPX port (IPX protocol is supported in the Windows version only)(screen shot).
• Trap Ringer employs the client/server architecture in a sense that the SNMP notification receiving module (server) is separated from the application's GUI (client). The server module, which runs uninterruptedly even when no user is logged on the operating system, receives SNMP notifications from the network and processes them according to applied configuration. It runs either as a service/daemon application (on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Linux and Mac OS X), or as a hidden console application (on Windows ME). Trap Ringer client (running on the same computer as server) is a regular GUI application that, when started, connects to the server and lets you view and manage received SNMP notifications, as well as control and configure both parts of the application.
• Assigning severity levels and colors to SNMP notifications. Trap Ringer lets you assign different severity level icons and colors to SNMP Trap and Inform notifications in order to indicate their importance and provide a better overview of received SNMP notifications displayed in the main window.
• Support for diverse SNMP notification monitoring and user-notifying options. The Output Manager Preferences window provides a convenient interface for configuring how the notifications should be logged or further processed. Received notification messages can be viewed directly in the real-time console viewer (main window) and logged to any number of files. The software can send information about received SNMP notifications in e-mail and SMS messages to any number of recipients, as well as log it to the system log files.
• SMS (Short Message Service) messages can be sent through connected mobile phone with a built-in modem supporting the AT instruction set. Trap Ringer can also invoke external programs upon receiving SNMP notifications in order to start any number of specific actions by providing command line parameters for each of them, as well as generate and periodically update any number of HTML report files that let you monitor SNMP notifications remotely by using a Web browser. (Web report screen shot).
• SNMP notification proxy forwarder. In addition to performing various user notifying and logging operations, Trap Ringer can also act as the SNMP notification proxy forwarder, meaning that it can forward received SNMP notification messages to other SNMP managers on the network. Moreover, it can also translate received SNMP notification messages and forward them as SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c or SNMPv3 Trap messages, or as SNMPv2c or SNMPv3 Inform messages.
• Trap Ringer translates the notification parameters in accordance with the SNMP Coexistence specification (RFC 3584).
• Comprehensive notification filtering capabilities and Create Filter from Notification Wizard. Trap Ringer provides an intuitive and user-friendly interface that lets you easily configure complex filters to capture only SNMP notifications with particular attributes.
• SNMP Trap and Inform notifications can be filtered by virtually any attribute or combination of attributes. Furthermore, Trap Ringer now lets you select a received SNMP notification in the main window and run the filter wizard to generate a filter from it in order to enable od disable receiving SNMP notifications that have the same attributes.