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Configuring SNMP
This chapter includes the following topics:
Topic
“Configuring SNMP” (page 324)
“Roadmap of SNMP commands” (page 324)
“Configuring SNMP settings” (page 325)
“Configuring the SNMP v2 MIB” (page 326)
“Configuring the SNMP community” (page 327)
“Configuring SNMPv3 users” (page 328)
“Configuring SNMP notification targets” (page 331)
“Configuring SNMP events” (page 332)
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a set of protocols
for managing complex networks. SNMP works by sending messages,
called protocol data units (PDU), to different parts of a network. The
SNMP-compliant agents on the Nortel SNAS devices store data about
themselves in Management Information Bases (MIB) and return this data
to the SNMP requesters.
There is one SNMP agent on each Nortel SNAS device, and the agent
listens to the Real IP address (RIP) of that particular device. On the Nortel
SNAS that currently holds the cluster Management IP address (MIP), the
SNMP agent also listens to the MIP.
The SNMP agent supports SNMP version 1, version 2c, and version 3.
Notification targets (the SNMP managers receiving trap messages sent by
the agent) can be configured to use SNMP v1, v2c, and v3. The default
is SNMP v2c. You can specify any number of notification targets on the
Nortel SNAS.
For information about the MIBs supported on the Nortel SNAS, see
“Supported MIBs” (page 477) .
Nortel Secure Network Access Switch
Using the Command Line Interface
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