Simple Network Management Protocol
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Specifying Trap Managers and Trap Types
Traps indicating status changes are issued by the switch to specified trap managers.
You must specify trap managers so that key events are reported by this switch to
your management station (using network management platforms such as SMC’s
EliteView). You can specify up to five management stations that will receive
authentication failure messages and other trap messages from the switch.
Command Usage
• If you specify an SNMP Version 3 host, then the “Trap Manager Community String”
is interpreted as an SNMP user name. If you use V3 authentication or encryption
options (authNoPriv or authPriv), the user name must first be defined in the
SNMPv3 Users page (page 5-9). Otherwise, the authentication password and/or
privacy password will not exist, and the switch will not authorize SNMP access for
the host. However, if you specify a V3 host with the no authentication (noAuth)
option, an SNMP user account will be automatically generated, and the switch will
authorize SNMP access for the host.
• Notifications are issued by the switch as trap messages by default. The recipient
of a trap message does not send a response to the switch. Traps are therefore not
as reliable as inform messages, which include a request for acknowledgement of
receipt. Informs can be used to ensure that critical information is received by the
host. However, note that informs consume more system resources because they
must be kept in memory until a response is received. Informs also add to network
traffic. You should consider these effects when deciding whether to issue
notifications as traps or informs.
To send an inform to a SNMPv2c host, complete these steps:
1. Enable the SNMP agent (page 5-2).
2. Enable trap informs as described in the following pages.
3. Create a view with the required notification messages (page 5-17).
4. Create a group that includes the required notify view (page 5-13).
To send an inform to a SNMPv3 host, complete these steps:
1. Enable the SNMP agent (page 5-2).
2. Enable trap informs as described in the following pages.
3. Create a view with the required notification messages (page 5-17).
4. Create a group that includes the required notify view (page 5-13).
5. Specify a remote engine ID where the user resides (page 5-8).
6. Then configure a remote user (page 5-11).
Command Attributes
•
Trap Manager Capability
– This switch supports up to five trap managers.
•
Current
– Displays a list of the trap managers currently configured.
•
Trap Manager IP Address
– IP address of a new management station to receive
notification messages.
•
Trap Manager Community String
– Specifies a valid community string for the
new trap manager entry. Though you can set this string in the Trap Managers table,
we recommend that you define this string in the SNMP Configuration page (for
Summary of Contents for 8926EM
Page 6: ...ii ...
Page 34: ...Getting Started ...
Page 44: ...Introduction 1 10 1 ...
Page 62: ...Initial Configuration 2 18 2 ...
Page 64: ...Switch Management ...
Page 76: ...Configuring the Switch 3 12 3 ...
Page 118: ...Basic Management Tasks 4 42 4 ...
Page 164: ...User Authentication 6 28 6 ...
Page 176: ...Access Control Lists 7 12 7 ...
Page 284: ...Quality of Service 14 8 14 ...
Page 294: ...Multicast Filtering 15 10 15 ...
Page 300: ...Domain Name Service 16 6 16 ...
Page 310: ...Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol 17 10 17 ...
Page 320: ...Configuring Router Redundancy 18 10 18 ...
Page 344: ...IP Routing 19 24 19 ...
Page 356: ...Unicast Routing 20 12 20 Web Click Routing Protocol RIP Statistics Figure 20 5 RIP Statistics ...
Page 386: ...Unicast Routing 20 42 20 ...
Page 388: ...Command Line Interface ...
Page 400: ...Overview of the Command Line Interface 21 12 21 ...
Page 466: ...SNMP Commands 24 16 24 ...
Page 520: ...Access Control List Commands 26 18 26 ...
Page 546: ...Rate Limit Commands 30 2 30 ...
Page 612: ...VLAN Commands 34 24 34 ...
Page 626: ...Class of Service Commands 35 14 35 ...
Page 670: ...DHCP Commands 39 16 39 ...
Page 716: ...IP Interface Commands 41 36 41 ...
Page 768: ...IP Routing Commands 42 52 42 ...
Page 770: ...Appendices ...
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