3Com WX4400 3CRWX440095A - Manual (Page 140)

140 C HAPTER 7: C ONFIGURING SNMP
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Set the minimum level of security allowed for SNMP message
exchanges.
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Configure a notification profile or modify the default one, to enable
sending of notifications to notification targets. By default,
notifications of all types are dropped (not sent).
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Configure notification targets.
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Enable the MSS SNMP engine.
Setting the System
Location and Contact
Strings
To set the location and contact strings for a switch, use the following
commands:
set system location string
set system contact string
Each string can be up to 256 characters long, with no blank spaces.
The following commands set a WX switch’s location to 3rd_floor_closet
and set the contact to sysadmin1:
WX4400# set system location 3rd_floor_closet
success: change accepted.
WX4400# set system contact sysadmin1
success: change accepted.
Enabling SNMP
Versions
To enable an SNMP protocol, use the following command:
set snmp protocol {v1 | v2c | usm | all} {enable | disable}
The usm option enables SNMPv3. The all option enables all three
versions of SNMP.
The following command enables all SNMP versions:
WX4400# set snmp protocol all enable
success: change accepted.
Configuring
Community Strings
(SNMPv1 and
SNMPv2c Only)
To configure a community string for SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c, use the
following command:
set snmp community name comm-string
access {read-only | read-notify | notify-only | read-write |
notify-read-write}