4-2 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide
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You use SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) to direct a process, called an
agent, on the filer to perform network management tasks such as gathering status
and diagnostic information. The information is sent to network management stations,
which are client workstations on a network. The network management stations use
third-party applications to process the information.
The information that is exchanged to perform these tasks is described in ASCII files
called Management Information Bases (MIBs).
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For diagnostic and other network management services, the filer supports the SNMP
MIB-II specification. Based on SNMP version 1, this specification provides data about
the following MIB-II groups:
system
interfaces
address translation
IP
ICMP
TCP
UDP
SNMP MIB-II
SNMP commands enable users to specify up to eight communities and trap notifica-
tions for up to eight management stations.
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To use SNMP, configure the SNMP agent using the snmp command. A typical set of
SNMP commands in the /etc/rc file in the root volume is as follows:
snmp contact ’jdoe@abc.com 555-555-1212’
snmp location ’ABC corporation, engineering lab’
snmp community add ro private
snmp traphost add snmp-mgr1
snmp init