Configuring for Network Management Applications

Using SNMP Tools To Manage the Switch

Configuring Trap Receivers. This command specifies trap receivers by community membership, management station IP address, and the type of Event Log messages to send to the trap receiver.

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If you specify a community name that does not exist—that is, has not yet been

 

configured on the switch—the switch still accepts the trap receiver assign­

 

ment. However, no traps will be sent to that trap receiver until the community

 

to which it belongs has been configured on the switch.

 

 

Syntax: snmp-server host < community-string > < ip-address >

Using community name and destination IP address, this command designates a destination network-man­ agement station for receiving SNMP event log messages from the switch. If you do not specify the event level, then the switch does not send event log messages as traps. You can specify up to 10 trap receivers (network management stations).

Note: In all cases, the switch sends any threshold trap(s) to the network management station(s) that explicitly set the threshold(s).

[<none all non-info critical debug>]

Options for sending switch Event Log messages to a trap receiver. Refer toTable 13-2, “Options for Sending Event Log Messages as Traps,” on page 13-22.The levels specified with these options apply only to Event Log messages, and not to threshold traps.

Table 13-2. Options for Sending Event Log Messages as Traps

Event Level

Description

 

 

None (default)

Send no log messages.

All

Send all log messages.

Not INFO

Send the log messages that are not information-only.

Critical

Send critical-level log messages.

Debug

Reserved for HP-internal use.

 

 

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