Network Administration 4-3
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SNMP commands that Dell supports are described in detail in the snmp(1) man page.
The following paragraphs provide brief explanations of these commands:
snmp contact ’jdoe@abc.com 555-555-1212’
Sets the email address and telephone number of the person responsible for the
filer. You can include the persons full name, but an email address and a tele-
phone number enable the administrator to contact the right person after
receiving an automatic email message.
snmp location ’ABC corporation, engineering lab’
Sets the physical location of the filer. This value is returned by the SNMP agent.
snmp community add ro private
Creates a read-only community called private. The SNMP manager uses the
community name as a password to communicate with the filers SNMP agent.
snmp traphost add snmp-mgr1
Makes the system snmp-mgr1 the recipient of all SNMP traps from the filer.
snmp init 1
Initializes the SNMP daemon with the values specified with snmp commands.
This command also sends the SNMP cold start and links up or down traps, as
appropriate, to any trap hosts that were previously registered using the snmp
traphost command. This command should be the last SNMP command in the
filers /etc/rc file.
snmp traps
Generates asynchronous notification of events, called traps.
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The Dell custom MIB provides detailed information about many aspects of filer opera-
tion. You must use Dell custom MIB 1.1.2 or higher. It contains objects that help you
manage multivolume features.
Where to get the MIB: You can obtain the custom MIB from the Data ONTAP 5.3 CD.
To locate the MIB on the CD, read the contents.txt file.
Installing the MIB: Install the MIB file on your network management workstation
according to the installation procedure for your workstation, so that your workstation
can obtain information from the filer about the objects that are part of the MIB.
Using deprecated single-volume objects: Single-volume objects are deprecated,
but you can use them for single-volume systems as before. If you are using a single-
volume filer, you do not need to make changes to use the new MIB.
Finding multivolume objects: The descriptions of the deprecated single-volume
objects contain the names of the corresponding new multivolume objects. For
multivolume objects, use the new objects rather than the deprecated ones.