Grass Valley iControl V.6.02 User Manual

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iControl and SNMP

Creating a GSM SNMP Agent for all Alarms

412

An icon labeled SNMP Agent appears in the Global actions list.

All alarms located in the iControl folder of the GSM Alarm Browser of the currently selected
GSM are now available to be polled or queried by a third party SNMP Manager.

To do this...

...do this...

Configure an SNMP agent.

1. In the SNMP Agent Configuration window, type a name for this plugin.

2. In the Community box, type an SNMP community string.

Only client requests with identical text are processed.

By default, the value is set to

public

.

3. In the Port list, select the Application Server port number to which the agent listens

for client requests.

1

4. In the Trap configuration area, click Add.

5. In the trap target that appears, in the Host column, type an IP address for the trap

target.

6. In the same row (same trap target), in the Port column, type the trap target’s port

number to which the trap will be sent.

7. [OPTIONAL] In the same row, in the Description column, type a description of the

trap target.

8. Specify the trap version.

9. Assign a trap number (used to identify this trap from others).

10. Click OK.

1. Make sure the port is not already being used by another process running on the same Application

Server.

Remove a trap target from
an SNMP agent.

1. In the SNMP Agent Configuration window, in the Trap targets list, select the target

you would like to remove.

2. Click Remove.

3. Click OK.

Note: The Global actions list may take several seconds to update. Alternatively,
you may click Refresh to manually update the list.

Note: The SNMP OIDs specific to Grass Valley devices and to the iControl GSM agent
and traps are contained in MIB files (

GSM-MIB.mib

and the

MIRANDA-MIB.mib

)

available from Grass Valley Technical Support (see

"Contact Us"

, on page 599).

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