Generating SNMP trap is not working

This article explains how to troubleshoot the SNMP trap generation through the user interface.
 

Symptom

You are trying to generate a trap as follows:

But nothing happens. No trap logged in /var/log/messages or /var/log/snmptrapd.log

Solution

1. Make sure the trap is enabled by following the Enable SNMP Traps documentation.

2. Make sure centreon-gorgone (user+groupe) is the owner on a poller:
   ls -l /etc/snmp/centreon_traps/centreontrapd.sdb

   But it could be in a subdirectory. For example for a central or a remote:
   ls -lR /etc/snmp/centreon_traps/

3. If centreon-gorgone is not the owner, you need to set it on the poller as below:
   chown centreon-gorgone. /etc/snmp/centreon_traps/centreontrapd.sdb

   For a central or remote server, apache (or www-data for Debian) should be the owner, not centreon-gorgone:
   chown -R apache. /etc/snmp/centreon_traps/

4. Try to generate the trap again as follows. It should be working now!
    

Still stuck?

• If the service centreontrapd still doesn’t start, enter the following command:
  systemctl status centreontrapd
• The partition is probably full:
  df -h
df -i
• Enter this command to clean old traps:
  rm -rf /var/spool/centreontrapd/

This time, the trap generation should work. The logs should provide information about the trap.