Specifying trap managers and trap types, Figure 3-22, Configuring snmp – LevelOne GSW-2692 User Manual

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Configuring the Switch

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Web – Click SNMP, Configuration. Add new community strings as required, select
the access rights from the Access Mode drop-down list, then click Add.

Figure 3-22 Configuring SNMP

CLI – The following example adds the string “spiderman” with read/write access.

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 HP
OpenView). You can specify up to five management stations that will receive
authentication failure messages and other trap messages from the switch.

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 the host (the targeted recipient).

Trap Manager Community String – Community string sent with the notification

operation. (Range: 1-32 characters, case sensitive)

Trap Version – Specifies whether to send notifications as SNMP v1 or v2c traps.

(The default is version 1.)

Enable Authentication Traps – Issues a trap message whenever an invalid

community string is submitted during the SNMP access authentication process.
(Default: Enabled)

Enable Link-up and Link-down Traps – Issues a trap message whenever a port

link is established or broken. (Default: Enabled)

Console(config)#snmp-server community spiderman rw

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Console(config)#

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