American Power Conversion AmpMeter PDU - Manual (Page 36)

4. Advanced Operations
SNMP
The AmpMeter PDU family of products supports the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). This
allows network management systems to use SNMP requests to retrieve information and control power for the
individual outlets.
The AmpMeter PDU includes an SNMP v1 agent supporting standard MIB I and MIB II objects.
NOTE: For security, SNMP support is disabled by default.
SNMP Command Summary
Command Description
Set snmp Enables or disables SNMP support
Set snmp getcomm Sets the ‘get’ community string
Set snmp setcomm Sets the ‘set’ community string
Set snmp trapdest1 Sets a destination IP addresses for traps
Set snmp trapdest2 Sets a destination IP addresses for traps
Set snmp traptime Sets the delay for steady state condition traps
Show snmp Displays all SNMP configuration information
Enabling and Setting up SNMP Support
AmpMeter PDU SNMP support must be enabled and configured for access to AmpMeter PDU3 MIB objects
and generation of all AmpMeter PDU3 traps.
Enabling/disabling SNMP support
The AmpMeter PDU SNMP command is used to enable or disable SNMP support.
To enable SNMP support:
At the AmpMeter PDU: prompt, type set snmp , followed by enabled or disabled and press Enter .
NOTE: A restart of the AmpMeter PDU is required after enabling or disabling SNMP support. See Performing
a warm boot on page 28 for more information.
Setting trap destinations
The Set SNMP Trapdest1 and Trapdest2 commands are used to set the IP addresses of SNMP management
stations receiving all traps. AmpMeter PDU supports a maximum of two trap destinations; one must be defined
to enable trap generation.
To set the trap destination:
At the AmpMeter PDU: prompt, type set snmp, trapdest1 or trapdest2 , the Ipaddress and press Enter .
Example
The following sets the trap destination 1 to 64.42.31.208:
AmpMeter PDU: set snmp trapdest1 64.42.31.208<Enter>
To reset the trap destination:
At the AmpMeter PDU: prompt, type set snmp, trapdest1 or trapdest2, 0.0.0.0 and press Enter .
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