3Com 3500 manual Snmp

SIMPLE NETWORK

6 MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL

(SNMP)

You can manage the system using a Simple Network Management

Protocol (SNMP)-based external management application (called the

SNMP manager) that sends requests to the system.

The SNMP agent provides access to the collection of information about the system, called Management Information Bases (MIBs). Your views of MIB information differ depending on the SNMP management method that you choose. In addition, you can configure an SNMP agent to send traps to an SNMP manager to report significant events. Access to system information through SNMP is controlled by community strings. You can use either an in-band or an out-of-band IP interface to manage the system with SNMP.

This chapter provides guidelines and other key information about how to set up SNMP in your system.

To configure SNMP for system management with SNMP:

1Assign an IP address to either the system processor out-of-band Ethernet port or an in-band Ethernet port.

2Set the destination IP address to which the traps are forwarded by the system agent.

For more information about setting up SNMP, see the Implementation Guide for your system.

To set community strings, snmp authentication_trap, and snmp extensions on a CoreBuilder® 9000 Enterprise Switch, see the CoreBuilder 9000 Enterprise Management Engine User Guide.

You can access the Remote Monitoring (RMON) capabilities of the CoreBuilder 3500 through SNMP applications such as Transcend® Network Control Services software.