Unbrowse has 3 ways to receive traps. Each of these are called providers. Here is a quick tip of how and when to use each of these.


The normal UDP socket.

• Listen on a specific port only


• Traps must be sent to the machine running Unbrowse


• Cannot have any process other than Unbrowse listening for traps


• Best option if Unbrowse is the primary trap receiver

Windows Raw Sockets.

• Listens for traps using Windows Raw sockets.
  


• Listens on all ports.


• Can have other processes listening for traps on the same port.


• Reliable on XP and Vista Home versions. Not so reliable on Vista Enterprise.


• May result in ICMP Destination Unreachable if Unbrowse is the main trap receiver


• Use this provider only if you want Unbrowse to receive traps on a system already running another trap reciever or for debugging

Winpcap.

• Listens for traps using the Winpcap packet capture library.


• You can get Winpcap from
  Winpcap download


• Listens on all ports.


• Works reliably on all platforms (XP and Vista)


• May result in ICMP Destination Unreachable if Unbrowse is the main trap receiver


• Use this when deploying Unbrowse as a passive trap receiver. You can log all traps even those sent to other systems by using port mirroring
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You can select a provider from the above 3 options via Tools > Customize > Trap Console > Preferred Provider.


The currently active provider is shown at the bottom of the trap console.


Hope this tip helps uses of Unbrowse SNMP with their trap monitoring needs.

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