3Com 9000 manual Using Device View

16CHAPTER 2: USING DEVICE VIEW

Preparing Devices The ability to set up devices from the SNMP management station is an

for Management important part of your configuration management strategy. To prepare to manage devices on your network, you need to perform the following key tasks:

1Discover devices and create network maps — The management system organizes your network into a hierarchical series of maps and submaps. This structured, hierarchical approach provides a high-level submap that represents your entire network, and detailed views of portions of the network, which helps you analyze and troubleshoot your network. Each map contains objects and symbols that represent parts of your network. Map symbols represent network resources as graphical icons, and relate to a set of basic management information that is stored in the management system’s object database.

2Set up SNMP parameters — The management station uses SNMP to get and set management information on the agent. To make sure you can manage devices on your network, you need to set the SNMP parameters that affect how the system communicates with devices.

Whenever a management application requests information from an SNMP agent, it provides a community name. The community name is a text string that acts as a password, and is used to authenticate every packet that is sent from the management application and the agent.

The management station must use the same community name that is configured on the agent. Setting the community name determines your level of management control over the device.

Some advanced management platforms enable you to set global values for other SNMP parameters, such as time-out and retry values, polling intervals, and SNMP proxy agents, that affect the way you manage devices.

For the CoreBuilder 9000 Enterprise Switch, you must configure the EME with certain parameters before you access the Administration Console of any switch fabric module or interface module, and before you access the system through an external Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) application. See the CoreBuilder 9000 Enterprise Management Engine User Guide for more information.

3Start polling device status — Map symbols can show the status of the managed object, so you can use your network map to quickly find out the state of the resources that make up your network.