Monitoring OneSpan Authentication Server with SNMP

OneSpan Authentication Server system monitoring is typically used to receive notifications via an SNMP trap, to retrieve security alert details, and to retrieve details of the audit message. For general information about SNMP, see SNMPv3.

OneSpan Authentication Server does not ship with a predefined set of events for which notifications can be sent out via SNMP traps. Via the Administration Web Interface or the Configuration Utility, server administrators can define their own set of events for which they want OneSpan Authentication Server to send out notifications. These OneSpan Authentication Server events, raised via SNMP traps, are called security alerts. OneSpan Authentication Server uses a OneSpan vendor-specific SNMP trap definition to send out SNMP traps for these security alerts.

System monitoring targets

The purpose of system monitoring is to alert administrators of certain events that originate in different system elements.

System monitoring requires one or more notification targets to be defined to specify the output format. The available target formats are:

• SMS
• E-mail
• SNMP traps

Defining event filters

As part of setting up OneSpan Authentication Server system monitoring, you can filter the events you want to be notified about via SNMP. By defining one or more filters you describe which audit messages need to be filtered, and how the notifications are to be delivered. The definition of an audit filter is similar to the definition of an audit filter as part of a report definition.