Scroll to...
Intro Modernize Rules Categorized Search Tool Forwarding NMS-Like Advanced Text Events DevOps Enterprise Speed Requirements DemoTrapStation logs and forwards events to distributed management systems. But it does a lot in between. You can selectively route events, translate protocols, filter, correlate events, apply thresholds, and modify events. Then view graphs, search logs, and replay events. TrapStation's design is based on decades of event-handling experience. Customers routinely tell us there is nothing else like it.
…never stop growing. Equipment and software processes generate events by the thousands. Full-featured network management systems (NMS) struggle under the load. Sometimes events are lost due to overflows. Daily restarts clear the backlog, but turn a blind eye to what was lost. What is needed today is a layer optimized for speed, to process events almost as fully as the NMS, to reduce the raw load without losing anything.
TrapStation was designed to leapfrog legacy event hubs that do little to reduce an NMS's load or your effort to configure it. Enjoy SNMP v3 encryption/security, event modification, search/replay, a browser interface, and active support.
TrapStation maps incoming events/traps to your rule tree nodes. Each node has a filter to test events, and options to log and forward matching events. Nested tiers form progressively specific tests, which reduces the complexity of individual rule nodes. Nesting ensures that a partially-matched event falls into a fail-safe rule node. And in general, TrapStation's tree-based rules promote a logical organization that is safer to maintain over time.
TrapStation's rule tree is a visual categorization of your events. So rule pathnames are perfect buckets for statistics. Each event's rule pathname is also stored in logs, so you can filter on it when using the search tool.
Your logs can accumulate millions or billions of events. TrapStation helps you find the ones you need, with multiple layers of filters. You can browse or save results, and replay them to one of your targets for testing. You can filter the live stream too, collecting real-time results to browse/save/replay.
You choose forwarding target(s) at each rule tree node. So to route some events differently, just match them at a different node, then apply different targets. Targets are typically your NMS/SNMP managers, and sometimes log files. TrapStation's target plug-ins support special needs, for example: a "round-robin" load balancer; a direct integration to your database, Kafka, Splunk®, etc. Do you need to convert v3 traps to v2 for feeding a legacy system, and simultaneously convert all v1/v2 traps and syslogs to v3 traps for a secure external target? No problem.
Although TrapStation is not intended to replace your network management systems, it includes validation options at each rule tree node. You don't have to use them, but they are available to help you significantly reduce forwarding of unwanted, spurious, redundant, and "flapping" events to your NMS.
TrapStation's rule tree nodes are powered by a JavaScript® engine that has been enhanced for handling both traps and text events. You can perform calculations, query trap fields, manipulate varbinds, and more, while using the well-known JavaScript syntax. Your work can be spread across script engines, for true multi-threaded scaling. Also, a JavaTM virtual machine is integrated with the JavaScript engine, so your rules can access external systems via Java's vast APIs.
Any event streams can be handled by your rule tree syslog, webhook, TL1, custom sockets, etc. Parser plug-ins make a protocol's event fields available to your rule scripts. For example, the syslog parser plug-in helps you reliably access each log's fields, and other parsers decode the fields of binary protocols. Formatter plug-ins help you reshape logs and forwarded events. For example, sensitive information can be stripped, look-up data can be added, and the entire syntax can be changed, e.g. to JSON. And of course TrapStation can convert any event to an SNMP trap, then forward/log just like all your native traps.
Installation is just a tar file, with no dependencies. Next, TrapStation's rule tree compartmentalizes your custom logic to limit your scope of work, and potential problems. The GUI has pre-deployment testing tools, and provides one-click deployment without downtime. Both live and historical reporting provides operational feedback. So time to code/test/deploy meets DevOps' speedy expectations.
TrapStation addresses the special concerns of large companies: redundancy, security/encryption, and centralized authentication/authorization:
Bursts of events traffic (thousands per second) are safely handled by TrapStation, and real-world throughput is engineered for the busiest network conditions: millions of traps per hour. Logs are optimized for speedy search results too.
![Browser Screenshot: Histogram illustrating traps received per hour. Range: [0 - 942,661]](TrapStorm.png)
Client: Any modern web browser
Server*:
Please request a web meeting, for a few slides and a live demo. A free trial is available too.
Thanks for exploring TrapStation. Also consider its various use cases. Or see what customers are saying.
TrapEXPLODER is a registered trademark of Concord Communications, Inc. (acquired by CA Technologies).
TrapBlaster is a trademark of BMC Software, Inc.
Splunk is a registered trademark of Splunk Inc.
