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Chapter 7 Adminis tering the Switch Managing the MAC Address Table
Beginning i n privileged E X EC mo de , follow these s teps to c on figure th e switc h t o send M AC addr ess
notification traps to an NMS host:
Command Purpose
Step 1 configure terminal Enter glob al co nfiguration mo de.
Step 2 snmp-server host host-addr {traps | informs} {version {1
| 2c | 3}} community-string notification-type Specify the recipient of the trap message.
For host-addr, specify the name or address of the
NMS.
Specify traps (the default) to send SNMP traps
to the host. Specify informs to send SNMP
info rms to th e hos t.
Specify the SNMP v ersion to support. Version 1,
the default, is not available with informs.
For community-string, specify the string to send
with the notification operation . Though you can
set th i s s t ring by u sin g th e snmp-server host
comm and, we re comm end th at you define thi s
string by using the snmp -server com mun ity
command before using the snmp- s erver ho st
command.
For notification-type, use the mac-notification
keyword.
Step 3 snmp-server enable traps mac-notification Enable the switch to send MAC address traps to the
NMS.
Step 4 mac address-table notification Enable the MAC address notification feature.
Step 5 mac address-table notification [interval value] |
[history-size va lu e]Enter the trap interval time and th e hist ory table size.
(Optiona l) For interval value, specify the
notification trap interval in seconds between
each set of traps that are generated to the NMS.
The range is 0 to 21474836 47 seconds; the
default is 1 sec ond .
(Optiona l) For history-size value, specify the
maximu m number of en tries in th e MAC
notification history tabl e. The range is 0 to 500;
the default is 1.
Step 6 interface interface-id Enter interface configuration mode, and specify the
interface on which to enable the SNMP MAC
address notification trap.
Step 7 snmp trap mac-notification {added | removed} Enable th e MAC address not ification trap .
Enable the MAC notification trap whenever a
MAC address is added on this interface.
Enable the MAC notification trap whenever a
MAC address is removed from this interface.
Step 8 end Return to privileged EXEC mode.