Raritan Dominion KX II, User Manual

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Chapter 7: Device Management
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Event Management
The Dominion KX II Event Management feature provides a set of screens
for enabling and disabling the distribution of system events to SNMP
Managers, Syslog, and the audit log. These events are categorized, and
for each event you can determine whether you want the event sent to
one or several destinations.
Configuring Event Management - Settings
SNMP Configuration
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a protocol governing
network management and the monitoring of network devices and their
functions. The Dominion KX II offers SNMP Agent support through Event
Management.
To configure SNMP (enable SNMP logging):
1. Choose Device Settings > Event Management - Settings. The Event
Management - Settings page appears.
2. Select SNMP Logging Enabled. This enables the remaining SNMP
fields.
3. In the Name, Contact, and Location fields, type the SNMP agent's
name (that is, the device's name) as it appears in the Dominion KX II
Console interface, a contact name related to this device, and where
the Dominion device is physically located.
4. Type the Agent Community String (the device's string). An SNMP
community is the group to which devices and management stations
running SNMP belong. It helps define where information is sent. The
community name is used to identify the group. The SNMP device or
agent may belong to more than one SNMP community.
5. Specify whether the community is Read-Only or Read/Write using
the Type drop-down list.
6. Configure up to five SNMP managers by specifying their Destination
IP/Host Name, Port #, and Community.
7. Click the Click here to view the Dominion SNMP MIB link to access
the SNMP Management Information Base.
8. Click OK.
To configure the Syslog (enable Syslog forwarding):
1. Select Enable Syslog Forwarding to log the device's messages to a
remote Syslog server.
2. Type the IP Address/Host Name of your Syslog server in the IP
Address field.