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176 SNMP Configuration
The procedure to use the SNMP MIB browser is:
• Enter the community string “public” into the Community field in the upper right corner of
the window. For safety reasons each entered character is displayed with a “*”.
• Access any of the supported MIB system group object by using the GetNext button from the
button bar of the window.
Figure 20-1: AdventNet MibBrowser displaying some of the System Group objects
Example: Setting the System Group Objects
In the following example the system information is set for later access via SNMP. See Figure 20-1 for
a typical MIB browser application accessing these MIB-II system group objects representing the
system information.
SN> enable
SN# configure
SN(cfg)# system contact "Lorenz Born, Phone 533"
SN(cfg)# system location "Office, 3rd floor, Inalp Networks AG"
SN(cfg)# system hostname "SN2300-01"
SN2300-01(cfg)#
After entering a host name the prompt on the CLI no longer displays the IP address of the Ethernet
port over which the Telnet session is running but shows the newly entered host name.
20.7 Setting Access Community Information
SNMP makes use of one or more labels called community strings to delimit groups of objects
(variables) that can be viewed or modified on a device. The SNMP data in such a group is organized
in a tree structure called a Management Information Base (MIB). A single device may have multiple
MIBs connected together into one large structure, and various community strings may provide read-
only or read-write access to different, possibly overlapping portions of the larger data structure. An
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