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Setting Up SNMP on
Your System
Access to system information through SNMP is controlled by community
strings. See Part II in this guide for information about configuring the
community strings and trap reporting.
You must also assign an IP address to the system Ethernet port,
depending on where the management station is attached. See the
chapters in Part II of this guide for more information.
You can manage the system using an SNMP-based external management
application. This application (called the SNMP manager) sends requests to
the system, where they are processed by the internal SNMP agent.
You can gain access to the Remote Monitoring (RMON) capabilities of
your system through SNMP applications such as Transcend
®
Network
Control Services software. See “RMON in Your System” later in this
chapter for information about the RMON capabilities of your system.
The SNMP agent provides access to the collection of information about
your system. (You can view many system-specific settings.) Your views of
MIB information differ depending on the system SNMP management
method that you choose.
In addition, you can configure a system SNMP agent to send traps to an
SNMP manager to report significant events.
Administering SNMP Trap Reporting
For network management applications, you can use the Administration
Console to manually administer the trap reporting address information.
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Displaying Trap Reporting Information — When you display the
trap reporting information, the system displays the various SNMP traps
and their currently configured destinations
.
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Configuring Trap Reporting — You can add new trap reporting
destination configurations and modify existing configurations. You
can define up to 10 destination addresses and the set of traps that are
sent to each destination address.
The trap numbers that you enter direct the system to send the
corresponding traps to the destination address when the events occur. No
unlisted traps are transmitted.
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Removing Trap Destinations — When you remove a destination, no
SNMP traps are reported to that destination.