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S I M P L E N E T W O R K M A N A G E M E N T P R O T O C O L ( S N M P )
Change Default Community Strings (Passwords)
You can, and should, change the default community names by editing /etc/snmpd.conf and modifying
these two lines:
rwcommunity endrun_1
rocommunity Meridian2
Configuring SNMPv1
Trap Generation
To have your Meridian II send SNMPv1 traps (RFC-1215) you must configure the community and
destination for SNMPv1 traps by uncommenting and editing this line in
/etc/snmpd.conf
:
trapsink xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx trapcommunity trapport
where
trapcommunity
should be replaced by your community, and
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
is the IP
address or hostname of the destination host for receiving the traps generated by Meridian II. By de-
fault, the trap will be sent to port 162. You may optionally add another parameter,
trapport
to the
end of the above line to override the default port setting. Otherwise leave it blank.
Note: Though the agent will recognize multiple
trapsink
lines within /etc/snmpd.conf and send the
generic SNMP coldStart or authenticationFailure traps to multiple destinations, the Meridian II enter-
prise MIB trap generation mechanism will only send a trap to the last declared
trapsink
in the file.
Configuring SNMPv2c
Notifications and Informs
To have your Meridian II send SNMPv2c notifications (SMIv2, RFC-2578) or informs, you must
configure the communities and destinations by uncommenting and editing one or both of these lines
in
/etc/snmpd.conf
:
trap2sink xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx trap2community trap2port
informsink xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx informcommunity informport
where
trap2community
and
informcommunity
should be replaced by your communities, and
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
is the IP address or hostname of the destination host for receiving the notifica-
tions or informs generated by Meridian II. By default, the v2c trap or inform will be sent to port 162.
You may optionally add another parameter,
trap2port
or
informport
to the ends of the above
lines to override the default port setting. Otherwise leave it blank.
Note: Though the
snmpd
agent will recognize multiple
trap2sink
or
informsink
lines within
/etc/snmpd.conf
and send the generic SNMP coldStart or authenticationFailure notifications and in-
forms to multiple destinations, the Meridian II enterprise MIB notification/inform generation mecha-
nism will only send a notification to the last declared
trap2sink,
and an inform to the last declared
informsink
in the file.