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  • 1.  SNMP Trap invalid Host

    Posted Tue August 11, 2020 09:58 AM

    We are trying to configure SNMP trap sending from QRadar to a Zabbix based on CRE Offenses and events.

    Following this guide:

    https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS42VS_7.4/com.ibm.qradar.doc/c_qradar_adm_snmp_config.html

    In particular:

    https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS42VS_7.4/com.ibm.qradar.doc/t_qradar_adm_snmp_send.html?view=kc


    We configured the SNMP trap sending based on a rule that we configured.

    The trap doesn't seems to work tough:

    This is an error we receive on qradar.log:

    Aug 7 14:32:01 ::ffff:172.25.0.96 [ecs-ep.ecs-ep] [ECS Runtime Thread] com.ibm.si.ep.SNMPV2: [ERROR] [NOT:0000003000][QradarIP/- -] [-/- -]Invalid host specified: %ZabbixIP% SNMP sender will be disabled

    The IP address is our Zabbix machine, sending a trap manually works fine


    17:10:53.330054 IP (tos 0x0, ttl 64, id 45398, offset 0, flags [DF], proto UDP (17), length 98)
    qradarhostname.51578 >zabbixhostname.com.snmptrap: [bad udp cksum 0x6ed2 -> 0x9425!] { SNMPv2c C="Public" { V2Trap(55) R=1391468547 system.sysUpTime.0=0 S:1.1.4.1.0=E:20212.1.2 }



    This is a TCPDump of an snmp trap sent from Qradar to our monitoring system.

    This is the "host part" of the OffenseCRE.snmp.xml



    <creSNMPTrap name="offenseCRENotification" OID="1.3.6.1.4.1.20212.1.2" version="2">
    <trapConfig> <snmpHost snmpVersion="2" port="162" retries="10" timeout="500">*Zabbix IP address*</snmpHost> <communityString>Public</communityString>

    If the IP address is not a valid host, what should I put into the "host" field mentioned in this documentation?

    https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS42VS_7.4/com.ibm.qradar.doc/t_qradar_adm_snmp_send.html

    We need some help about the configuration because there are no examples on how configure it on the knowledge center.



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    Alessandro Di Liberto
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