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TANDBERG
VIDEO COMMUNICATION SERVER
ADMINISTRATOR GUIDE
Introduction
Overview and
status
System
configuration
VCS
configuration
Zones and
neighbors
Clustering and
peers
Call
processing
Bandwidth
control
Firewall
traversal
Appendices
Applications
Maintenance
System configuration
The
SNMP
page lets you configure the VCS’s SNMP settings:
To go to the SNMP page:
•
System configuration > SNMP
To configure SNMP settings using the CLI:
•
xConfiguration SNMP
About SNMP
Tools such as TANDBERG Management Suite (TMS) or HP OpenView may act as SNMP Network
Management Systems (NMS). They allow you to monitor your network devices, including the VCS,
for conditions that might require administrative attention.
The VCS supports the most basic MIB-II tree (.1.3.6.1.2.1) as defined in
RFC 1213 [23]
. The
information made available by the VCS includes the following:
•
system uptime
•
system name
•
location
•
contact
•
interfaces
•
disk space, memory, and other machine-specific statistics
To allow the VCS to be monitored by an SNMP NMS (including TMS), you must
Enable
SNMP on
the VCS and provide the name of the
SNMP community
within which it resides. You may optionally
provide the name of a
System contact
and the physical
Location
of the system for reference by
administrators when following up on queries.
By default, SNMP is
Disabled
with a
SNMP community name
of
public
.
!
SNMP is disabled by default because of the potentially sensitive nature of the information
involved. Do not enable SNMP on a VCS on the public internet or in any other environment
where you do not want to expose internal system information.
The VCS does not support SNMP traps or SNMP sets, therefore it cannot be managed using
SNMP.
SNMP
About external managers
An external manager is a remote system, such as the TANDBERG Management Suite (TMS), used to
monitor events occurring on the VCS, for example call attempts, connections and disconnections.
The use of an external manager is optional.
Configuration
The
External manager
page allows you to configure the VCS's external manager settings.
To go to the
External manager
page:
•
System configuration > External manager
To configure external manager settings using the CLI:
•
xConfiguration ExternalManager
The options are:
Address and path
To use an external manager, you must configure the VCS with the IP address or host name and path
of the external manager to be used.
If you are using TMS as your external manager, use the default path of
tms/public/external/management/SystemManagementService.asmx
.
Protocol
This setting allows you to determine whether communications with the external manager are over
HTTP
or
HTTPS
.
Certificate verification mode
You may also require that the VCS verifies the certificate presented by the external manager by
selecting a
Certificate verification mode
of
On
.
If you do this, you must also add the certificate of the issuer of the external manager's certificate
to the file containing the VCS's trusted CA certificates. This is done from the
Security certificates
page (
Maintenance > Security certificates
).
External manager
