
Using Traps to Monitor Performance
Using SNMP traps
MAX Administration Guide
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Understanding the SNMP trap parameters
To specify the SNMP trap profile name, set the Name parameter. Use a name of 31 or fewer
characters.
To specify the community string for communicating with the SNMP manager, set the Comm
parameter to the community name associated with the SNMP PDU.
The Alarm, Port, and Security fields specify whether the MAX traps respectively alarm events,
port events, and/or security events, and sends a trap-PDU to the SNMP manager.
The Dest field specifies the destination address for the trap-status report. If DNS or YP/NIS is
supported, the Dest field can contain the hostname of a system running an SNMP manager. If
the DNS or YP/NIS is not supported, the Dest field must contain the host’s address.
Note:
To turn off SNMP traps, set Dest to 0.0.0.0 and delete the value for Comm.
Configuration Change allows you to specify that the MAX unit sends an SNMP string of
information containing the date, time, and information about the user who has made a change
to the configuration of the unit. The unit also sends the security profile and security profile
name of a user who modifies the configuration or loads a different software binary code to the
MAX unit.
Example SNMP trap configuration
The following procedure creates a profile that specifies a community name, all the trap types,
and the host’s IP address in the Dest parameter.
1
Open an SNMP Traps profile and assign it a name.
2
Specify the community name (for example,
Lucent
).
3
Set the trap types to
Yes
.
4
Specify the IP address of the host to which the trap-PDUs will be sent.
5
Close the SNMP Traps profile.
Following is an example of a profile configured with this procedure:
Ethernet
SNMP Traps
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SNMP Traps profile 1
Name=security-traps
Alarm=Yes
Port=Yes
Security=Yes
Comm=Lucent
Dest=10.2.3.4
Enable traps...