Allied Telesis at-8700xl series switch manual SNMP and MIBs

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SNMP and MIBs

You can remotely monitor some features of the switch using Simple Network

Management Protocol (SNMP).

For information about the MIBs supported by the switch, see Appendix C:

SNMP MIBs in the AT-8700XL Series Software Reference.

The SNMP agent is disabled by default. To enable SNMP, enter the command:

ENABLE SNMP

SNMP communities are the main configuration item in the switch’s SNMP agent, and are defined in terms of a list of IP addresses which define the SNMP application entities (trap hosts and management stations) in the community. To create an SNMP community, enter the command:

CREATE SNMP COMMUNITY=name [ACCESS={READWRITE}] [TRAPHOST=ipadd] [MANAGER=ipadd] [OPEN={ONOFFYESNOTRUEFALSE}]

The community name is a security feature and you should keep it secure.

To enable the generation of authentication failure traps by the SNMP agent whenever an SNMP authentication failure occurs, enter the command:

ENABLE SNMP AUTHENTICATE_TRAP

To enable the generation of link state traps for a specified interface, enter the command:

ENABLE INTERFACE=interface LINKTRAP

where interface is the name of an interface, such as “eth0”.

For more information see the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) chapter and the Interfaces chapter in the AT-8700XL Series Software Reference.

To display the current state and configuration of the SNMP agent, enter the command:

SHOW SNMP

For a detailed description of the output from the SHOW SNMP command, see the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) chapter in the AT-8700XL Series Software Reference.

Software Release 2.6.1 C613-02030-00 REV B