User’s Guide
Chapter 6 – SNMP Management
Use SNMP to Access MIB
SNMP agent gathers data from the MIB. The
agent can send traps (notification of certain events) to the SNMP manager, which receives and
processes the traps. Traps are messages alerting the SNMP manager to a condition on the network
such as improper user authentication, restarts, link status (up or down), MAC address tracking, and so
forth. The SNMP agent also responds to MIB-related queries sent by the SNMP manager in
get-
request
,
get-next-request
, and
set-request
format.
MIB
SNMP Agent
P-560
SNMP Manager
get-response, traps
get-request, get-next-reguest, get-bulk, set-request
Figure 37 – SNMP Network
Gemtek Private MIB
In addition to standard SNMP MIBs, Gemtek P560 supports
private
Gemtek
MIB
. The private MIBs
are enterprise specific and serve to extend the functionality of the standard MIBs. Private MIB
identifies manageable objects and their properties that are specific to the managed device. MIBs let
you manage device not only by using WEB or Command Line Interface but also using SNMP protocol.
The descriptions and brief explanations of managed objects are available in the MIB file. The MIB file
is a specially formatted text file. It is using the so-called ASN.1 standard syntax.
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