
Setting Up SNMP Management 49
Web Management Over To manage a switch using the web interface over an IP network: the Network
1Check that you have the IP protocol correctly installed on your management workstation. You can check this by trying to browse the World Wide Web. If you can browse, the IP protocol is installed.
2Check you can communicate with the switch by entering a ping command at the DOS prompt in the following format:
c:\ ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
(where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP address of the switch)
If you get an error message, check that your IP information was entered correctly and the switch is powered up.
3Open your web browser and enter the IP address of the switch that you wish to manage in the URL locator, for example, in the following format:
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
4At the login and password prompts, enter admin as your user name and press Return at the password prompt (or the password of your choice if you have already modified the default passwords).
5Click on the Device View button to display the web management options.
Setting Up SNMP | Any network management application running the Simple Network Management | |
Management | Protocol (SNMP) can manage a switch if the management workstation is | |
| connected to the switch using a port on the management VLAN. By default, the | |
| management VLAN is 1, and all ports on the switch are in VLAN 1. | |
| For a description of 3Com’s network management applications, see Appendix C, | |
| “3Com Network Management” on page 63. | |
Prerequisites | ■ | The default read community string is public. The default write community |
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| string is private. |
| ■ To display the current configuration of the community strings in the System | |
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| View, enter display |
| ■ | To configure new read community strings, enter snmp community read |
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| (new community string up to 32 characters). |
| ■ | To configure new write community strings, enter snmp community write |
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| (new community string up to 32 characters). |
| ■ | To remove a community string, enter undo |
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| string to be removed). |
To manage your switch using an SNMP network management application, you need to specify SNMP community strings for the users defined on the switch. You can do this using the command line interface system management snmp community command. Refer to the command line interface section of the “SuperStack 4 Switch Command Reference Guide” for more information.
These switches support SNMP V1, V2, and V3. SNMP V3 is on as default. All commands are in snmp menu in System View.