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Retrieving SNMP trap destinations from Windows

Hello,

I am currently developing a C# program to detect/monitor USB activity. If certain a certain device that I don’t want to be plugged in, gets plugged in, then the program will shoot off an SNMP trap to 4 servers that I specified in the code. SNMP is enabled on the Windows 7 machine, but the program doesn’t use any of this as I have the UDP packet generation in the code. I will be installing this on A LOT of machines, and realized that in the future it is going to be a pain if the 4 servers change. I would have to update the code and reinstall the program on each machine.

I have SNMP configured on the machines themselves with the same trap destination information that is in the code, but it is much easier to push out a change on that if the IP addresses of the servers were to change in the future. Is there any way to pull in the “Trap Destinations” that I have set in Windows as a variable in my code? If so, where is that information stored? That way I could just push out a change to the SNMP configuration and the program would automatically work with the changes.

Sorry if this isn’t very clear…

Thanks

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Rory de Leur

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DickJansen

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This is more of the information I was looking for, but I will accept yours as a possible solution

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa915250.aspx

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SNMP\Parameters\TrapConfiguration\public

KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SNMP\Parameters\TrapConfiguration\mycommunity

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SNMP\Parameters\TrapVersion

DickJansen

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I was really looking to get away from fixed FQDN entries in the code as those are likely to change at some point.