Setting Up SNMP on Your System

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Setting Up SNMP on Your System

Displaying SNMP Settings

Top-Level Menu

system

 

 

ethernet

 

 

display

fddi

 

community

bridge

 

 

trap

ip

 

 

 

snmp

 

 

analyzer

 

 

script

 

 

logout

 

 

To manage the Switch 2200 from an external management application, you must configure SNMP community strings and set up trap reporting as described in this section.

You can manage the Switch 2200 using an SNMP-based external management application. This application (an SNMP manager) sends requests to the Switch 2200 system, where they are processed by the Switch SNMP agent.

The SNMP agent provides access to the collection of information about the Switch 2200. In addition, a Switch 2200 SNMP agent sends traps to an SNMP manager to report significant events. Access to system information through SNMP is controlled by community strings.

For more information about using SNMP to manage the Switch 2200, see Chapter 3: Management Access: Protocols in the SuperStack™ II Switch 2200 Operation Guide.

You can display the current Switch 2200 SNMP configurations for the community strings.

To display SNMP settings, enter the following from the top level of the Administration Console:

snmp display

The community string settings are displayed as shown here:

Read-only community is public

Read-write community is private

Configuring A community string is an octet string, included in each SNMP message, that Community Strings controls access to system information. The Switch 2200 SNMP agents

internally maintain two community strings that you can configure:

Read-onlycommunity strings with the default “public”

Read-writecommunity strings with the default “private”

When an SNMP agent receives an SNMP request, the community string in the request is compared with the community strings configured for the agent. SNMP get, get-next, and set requests are valid if the community string

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3Com 2200 Setting Up Snmp on Your System, Displaying Snmp Settings, Community string settings are displayed as shown here