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3-6. SNMP Configuration
Any Network Management System (NMS) running the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) can manage the Managed devices equipped with an
SNMP agent, provided that the Management Information Base (MIB) is installed
correctly on the managed devices. The SNMP is a protocol that is used to govern
the transfer of information between the SNMP manager and agent and traverses
the Object Identity (OID) of the Management Information Base (MIB), described in
the form of SMI syntax. The SNMP agent is running on the switch to respond to the
requests issued by the SNMP manager.
Basically, it is passive except when issuing the trap information. The Switch
supports an internal switch to turn on or off the SNMP agent. If you set the field
SNMP “Enable”, the SNMP agent will be started up. All supported MIB OIDs,
including RMON MIB, can be accessed via the SNMP manager. If the field SNMP is
set as “Disable”, the SNMP agent will be deactivated, and the related Community
Name, Trap Host IP Address, Trap and all MIB counters will be ignored.
Function name:
SNMP Configuration
Function description:
This function is used to configure SNMP settings, community name, trap host
and public traps as well as the throttle of SNMP. The SNMP manager must pass the
authentication by identifying both community names, and then it can access the MIB
information of the target device. So, both parties must have the same community
name. Once completing the setting, click the
<Apply>
button, and the setting takes
effect.
Parameters description:
SNMP:
The term SNMP here is used for the activation or deactivation of SNMP.
Default is "Enable".
Get/Set/Trap Community:
Community name is used as a password for authenticating if the
requesting network management unit belongs to the same community
group. If they both don’t have the same community name, they don’t
belong to the same group. Hence, the requesting network management
unit can not access the device with a different community name via
SNMP protocol; If they both have the same community name, they can
communicate with each other.
Community name is user-definable with
a maximum length of 15
characters and is case sensitive. There is no blank allowed in the
community name string. Any printable character is allowable.
The community name for each function works independently. Each
function has its own community name. Say, the community name for
GET only works for GET function and can’t be applied to other function
such as SET and Trap.
