Specifying an snmp trap receiver – Brocade TurboIron 24X Series Configuration Guide User Manual
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Configuring basic system parameters
Specifying an SNMP trap receiver
You can specify a trap receiver to ensure that all SNMP traps sent by the device go to the same
SNMP trap receiver or set of receivers, typically one or more host devices on the network. When
you specify the host, you also specify a community string. The device sends all the SNMP traps to
the specified hosts and includes the specified community string. Administrators can therefore filter
for traps from a device based on IP address or community string.
When you add a trap receiver, the software automatically encrypts the community string you
associate with the receiver when the string is displayed by the CLI. If you want the software to show
the community string in the clear, you must explicitly specify this when you add a trap receiver. In
either case, the software does not encrypt the string in the SNMP traps sent to the receiver.
To specify the host to which the device sends all SNMP traps, use one of the following methods.
To add a trap receiver and encrypt the display of the community string, enter commands such as
the following.
To specify an SNMP trap receiver and change the UDP port that will be used to receive traps, enter
a command such as the following.
TurboIron(config)#snmp-server host 10.2.2.2 0 mypublic port 200
TurboIron(config)#write memory
Syntax: snmp-server host <ip-addr> [0 | 1] <string> [port <value>]
The
The 0 | 1 parameter specifies whether you want the software to encrypt the string (1) or show the
string in the clear (0). The default is 0.
The
can be a read-only string or a read-write string. The string is not used to authenticate access to the
trap host but is instead a useful method for filtering traps on the host. For example, if you configure
each of your devices that use the trap host to send a different community string, you can easily
distinguish among the traps from different devices based on the community strings.
The command in the example above adds trap receiver 10.2.2.2 and configures the software to
encrypt display of the community string. When you save the new community string to the
startup-config file (using the write memory command), the software adds the following command
to the file.
snmp-server host 10.2.2.2 1 <encrypted-string>
To add a trap receiver and configure the software to encrypt display of the community string in the
CLI, enter commands such as the following.
device(config)#snmp-server host 10.2.2.2 0 device-12
device(config)#write memory
The port <value> parameter allows you to specify which UDP port will be used by the trap receiver.
This parameter allows you to configure several trap receivers in a system. With this parameter,
device and another network management application can coexist in the same system. Devices can
be configured to send copies of traps to more than one network management application.