Aruba Networks AirOS v2.3, User Manual

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System and Network Management 169
Chapter 11
If the administrator is using SNMPv3 for getting the values from the Aruba WLAN Switch,
follow the steps below to configure valid users for SNMPv3:
1 Click Add in the SNMPv3 users section to add a new SNMPv3 user.
4. Read Community Strings Community strings used to
authenticate requests for
SNMP versions before
version 3.
Note: This is
needed only if using SNMP
v2c and is not needed if using
version 3.
These are the community
strings that are allowed to
access the SNMP data
from the switch.
5. Enable Trap Generation Enables generation of SNMP
traps to configured SNMP
trap receivers. Refer to the list
of traps in the “SNMP traps”
section below for a list of
traps that are generated by the
Aruba WLAN Switch. Select this option and
configure the details of the
trap receivers to enable
generation of traps for
various events by the
Aruba WLAN Switch.
6. Trap receivers Host information about a trap
receiver. This host needs to be
running a trap receiver to
receive and interpret the traps
sent by the Aruba WLAN
Switch Configure the following
for each host/trap receiver:
z
IP address
z
SNMP version: can be 1
or 2c.
z
Community string
z
UDP port on which the
trap receiver is listening
for traps. The default is
the UDP port number
162. This is
OPTIONAL, and will
use the default port num-
ber if not modified by the
user.