Sending / Forwarding SNMP traps to external manager

[ejb3workshop]

I am trying to send / forward SNMP traps generated by JBoss to an external SNMPTRAPD service. I modified the manager.xml file to specify an external host / port and version, but this does not seem to work. I haven't come accross any error messages in JBoss or the SNMPTRAPD.

My aim is to be able to monitor and receive alerts on what's going on inside JBOSS. I am interested in Memory allocation, Bean pool size etc and would like to be notified via email when a certain threshold is exceeded. Is there a way to configure JBOSS to do this. If you could point me toward some documentation on this topic I would be very grateful.

Alex

[pilhuhn]

Did you already have a look at the respective Wiki pages at
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JBossSNMPAdapter?

Did you check that neither the machine where JBoss is on, nor the receiver (or any machine in between) has firewall rules to drop the snmp packets?
I used to send traps to receiver on a local machine just fine in the past.
How exactly did you specify the receiver in the managers.xml file? If you provided a hostname, are you sure that this correctly resolves to a ip address? Can you ping that machine?