Asante Technologies 35516 Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol STP, Disable the Snmp Protocol

Create or Modify Access Control for SNMP Community

You can configure a community string, which acts like a password, to permit access to the agent on the router.

Read Only (ro): The string that defines access rights for reading SNMP data objects. The default is public.

Read-Write (rw): The string that defines access rights for writing SNMP data objects. The default is private.

Important! Be sure to change the SNMP default community strings in order to prevent unauthorized access to management information.

To set up the community access string to permit access to the SNMP, use the following command from the global command mode.

Command	Purpose
snmp-server community string	Define the community access string.
{ro rw}

Establish the Contact, and Location of the SNMP Agent

Set the system contact and the location of the SNMP agent so that these descriptions can be accessed through the configuration file.

To set the system contact (sysContact) string, use the following command in global configuration command.

Command	Purpose
snmp-server contact text	Set the system contact string.
snmp-server location text	Set the system location string.
Define SNMP Trap Operations

A trap is an unsolicited message sent by an SNMP agent to an SNMP manager indicating that some event has occurred. The SNMP trap operations allow the user to configure the router to send information to a network management application when a particular event occurs.

To define traps for the agent to send to the manager, use the following commands in global configuration mode.

Command	Purpose
snmp-server host address	Specify the recipient of the trap message.

The 35516 can send an SNMP trap to its configured trap receivers if it detects a duplicate IP address. To turn on duplicate IP detection, use the following command in global configuration mode:

Router(config)# duplicate-ip detect

Disable the SNMP Protocol

To disable SNMP, use the following command in global configuration mode:

Command	Purpose
no snmp-server	Disable SNMP operation.

4.3.2 Configuring Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is part of the IEEE 802.1D standard. It provides for a redundant network without the redundant traffic through closed paths. For example, in a network without spanning tree protocol, the same message will be broadcast through multiple paths, which may start an unending packet-passing cycle. This in turn causes a great amount of extra network traffic, leading to network downtime. The STP reduces a network like this, with multiple, redundant connections, to one in which all points are connected,

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