Chapter 7: Post-installation administration

Enabling alarms to INADS via SNMP

Note:

Do these steps only if a Secure Service Gateway (SSG) is being installed. Enable alarms on both media servers on a duplicated system.

1.Start a telnet session.

2.Type almsnmpconf -dipaddress -ccommunityname and press Enter, where ipaddress is the trap receiver address for the SSG device and communityname is the community string name required by the SSG device.

3.Type almsnmpconf and press Enter.

Verify that the correct information was entered.

4.At the prompt, type almenable -s y and press Enter.

5.Type almenable and press Enter.

Verify that the SNMP alarm origination is enabled. If used, verify that alarm origination via modem is still enabled.

6.Log off.

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Provide the default LAN security settings to the customer.

Ensure that the customer knows that remote access to the media server is available only if the the following services are enabled Maintenance Web Interface Firewall screen:

telnet must be enabled to access Telnet

https must be enabled to access the Maintenance Web Interface

def-satmust be enabled to access the SAT commands

162/udp must be enabled to receive SNMP traps from the UPS and Avaya Ethernet switch

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