Allied Telesis 2.6.1 manual For More About Operations and Facilities

Operating the switch 61

SNMP communities are the main configuration item in the router’s SNMP agent, and are defined in terms of a list of IP addresses which define the SNMP application entities (trap hosts and management stations) in the community. To create an SNMP community, enter the command:

CREATE SNMP COMMUNITY=name [ACCESS={READWRITE}] [TRAPHOST=ipadd] [MANAGER=ipadd] [OPEN={ONOFFYESNOTRUEFALSE}]

The community name is a security feature and you should keep it secure.

To enable the generation of authentication failure traps by the SNMP agent whenever an SNMP authentication failure occurs, enter the command:

ENABLE SNMP AUTHENTICATE_TRAP

To enable the generation of link state traps for a specified interface, enter the command:

ENABLE INTERFACE=interface LINKTRAP

where interface is the name of an interface, such as “vlan11”.

For more information see the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) chapter and the Interfaces chapter in the AT-8800 Series Switch Software Reference.

To display the current state and configuration of the SNMP agent, enter the command:

SHOW SNMP

For a detailed description of the output from the SHOW SNMP command, see the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) chapter in the AT-8800 Series Switch Software Reference.

For More About Operations and Facilities

For more detail about operating the switch, and for full command syntax definitions, see the Operation chapter in the AT-8800 Series Switch Software Reference, including:

■How to use the User Authentication Facility, RADIUS, TACACs or TACACS+ for authenticating users who log on to the switch, and ensuring that only authorised login accounts are used.

■How to use the HTTP Client, which you can use to download software files onto the switch, and the HTTP Server.

■How to use the Mail Subsystem.

■How to use LDAP to load PKI certificates and CRLs onto your switch.

■Switch Startup Operations

■How to use FLASH compaction to regain storage space on the switch. Read “Warning about FLASH memory” on page 12 before you attempt to do this.

■How to set aliases to represent common command strings.

■How to define a remote security officer, so you can manage the security features remotely via Telnet.

Software Release 2.6.1 C613-02039-00 REV A