Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X4200 - Manual (Page 24)

2-4 Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 Servers System Management Guide • December 2005
2.2.4 SNMP Messages
SNMP is a protocol, not an operating system so you need some type of application
to use SNMP messages. Your SNMP management software may provide this
functionality, or you can use an open source tool like net-SNMP, which is available at
http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/.
Both management stations and agents use SNMP messages to communicate.
Management stations can send and receive information. Agents can respond to
requests and send unsolicited messages in the form of a trap. There are five
functions that management stations and agent use:
Get
GetNext
GetResponse
Set
Trap
By default, port 161 is used for SNMP messages and port 162 is used to listen for
SNMP traps.
2.3 How to Configure SNMP on the SP
The Sun™ Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) Service Processor has a
preinstalled SNMP agent that supports trap delivery to an SNMP management
application.
2.3.1 What to Do
To use this feature, you must integrate the platform-specific MIBs into your SNMP
environment, tell your management station about your server, then configure the
specific traps.