3Com 4200G, 5500G, 4210 manual SNMP-RMON Configuration Guide

SNMP-RMON CONFIGURATION

30 GUIDE

SNMP Configuration The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is used for ensuring the transmission of the management information between any two network nodes. In this way, network administrators can easily retrieve and modify the information about any node on the network, locate and diagnose network problems, plan for network growth, and generate reports on network nodes.

Network Diagram Figure 80 Network diagram for SNMP configuration

	Switch A	NMS
	10.10.10.2/16	10.10.10.1/16
Networking and	■ An NMS and Switch A (SNMP agent) are connected through the Ethernet. The
Configuration	IP address of the NMS is 10.10.10.1 and that of the VLAN interface on Switch
Requirements	A is 10.10.10.2.
	■ Perform the following configuration on Switch A: setting the community name
	and access right, administrator ID, contact and switch location, and enabling
	the switch to sent traps.

Applicable Products

Product series	Software version	Hardware version
Switch 5500	Release V03.02.04	All versions
Switch 5500G	Release V03.02.04	All versions
Switch 4500	Release V03.03.00	All versions
Switch 4210	Release V03.01.00	All versions

Configuration Procedure Configuring the switch (SNMP agent)

# Enable SNMP agent, and set the SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c community names.

<3Com> system-view

[3Com] snmp-agent

[3Com] snmp-agent sys-info version all

[3Com] snmp-agent community read readname

[3Com] snmp-agent community write writename

# Set the access right of the NMS to the MIB of the SNMP agent.

[3Com] snmp-agent mib-view include internet 1.3.6.1