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Simple Network Management Protocol
Simple Network Management Protocol is supported on platforms
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SNMP is supported on the E-Series ExaScale platform with FTOS 8.1.1.0 and later.
Protocol Overview
Network management stations use Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to retrieve or alter
management data from network elements. A datum of management information is called a
managed
object ; the value of a managed object can be static or variable. Network elements store managed objects in
a database called a Management Information Base (MIB).
MIBs are hierarchically structured and use object identifiers to address managed objects, but managed
objects also have a textual name called an object descriptor .
Implementation Information
• FTOS supports SNMP version 1 as defined by RFC 1155, 1157, and 1212, SNMP version 2c as
defined by RFC 1901, and SNMP version 3 as defined by RFC 2571.
• FTOS supports up to 15 trap receivers.
• The FTOS implementation of the sFlow MIB supports sFlow configuration via SNMP sets.
• SNMP traps for STP and MSTP state changes are based on BRIDGE MIB (RFC 1483) for STP and
IEEE 802.1
draft ruzin-mstp-mib-02 for MSTP.
Configure Simple Network Management Protocol
Note: On Dell Force10 routers, standard and private SNMP MIBs are supported, including all Get and a
limited number of Set operations (such as set vlan and copy cmd ).
Note: The configurations in this chapter use a Unix environment with net-snmp version 5.4. This is only
one of many RFC-compliant SNMP utilities you can use to manage your Dell Force10 system using
SNMP. Also, these configurations use SNMP version 2c.