Simple Network Management Protocol

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Web – Click SNMP, Configuration. Add new community strings as required, select
the access rights from the Access Mode drop-down list, then click Add.
Figure3-19 Configuring SNMP Community Strings
CLI – The following example adds the string “spiderman” with read/write access.
Specifying Trap Managers and Trap Types
Traps indicating status changes are issued by the switch to specified trap managers.
You must specify trap managers so that key events are reported by this switch to
your management station (using network management platforms such as HP
OpenView). You can specify up to five management stations that will receive
authentication failure messages and other trap messages from the switch.
Command Attributes
•Trap Manager Capability – This switch supports up to five trap managers.
•Trap Manager IP Address – IP address of a new management station to receive
trap messages.
•Trap Manager Community String – Community string sent with the notification
operation. (Range: 1-32 characters, case sensitive)
•Trap Version – Specifies whether to send notifications as SNMP v1 or v2c traps.
(Default: v1)
•Enable Authentication Traps ��� Issues a notification message to specified IP trap
managers whenever authentication of an SNMP request fails. (Default: Enabled)
•Enable Link-up and Link-down Traps – Issues a notification message whenever
a port link is established or broken. (Default: Enabled)
Console(config)#snmp-server community spiderman rw 4-112
Console(config)#