How to configure snmp for snmp trap forwarding

Question

I have tried adding the following to snmpd.conf:

trapcommunity public
trapsink finalsnmptrapdestserver public

I thought this should allow traps to be recieved with the community string public and send any traps to finalsnmptrapdestserver with community string public. But traps do not seem to make it to my final destination.

Answer 1

Apparently snmptrapd needs to be used.

I created /etc/snmp/snmptrapd.conf with the following contents. Its not secure in any way but it did what I was wanting, though the problem I was originally trying to solve was not fixed. So back to the drawing board for me. But for anyone else wanting to proxy snmp traps a simple config.

authCommunity net public
forward default finalsnmptrapdestserver public

This will accept traps for forwarding with the community string public and forward all traps to finalsnmptrapdestserver with community string public.