Asante Technologies 35516 - Manual (Page 44)

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Important! Be sure to change the SNMP default community strings in order to prevent unauthorized access to
management information.
To set up the community access string to permit access to the SNMP, use the following command from the global
command mode.
Command Purpose
snmp-server community string [view
view-name] {ro | rw} [access-list-number] Define the community access string. The access-list-number
parameter is numbered from 1–99 and 1300–1999.
Establish the Contact and Location of the SNMP Agent
Set the system contact and the location of the SNMP agent so that these descriptions can be accessed through the
configuration file.
To set the system contact (sysContact) string, use the following command in global configuration command.
Command Purpose
snmp-server contact text Set the system contact string.
snmp-server location text Set the system location string.
Define SNMP Trap Operations
A trap is an unsolicited message sent by an SNMP agent to an SNMP manager indicating that some event has
occurred. The SNMP trap operations let you configure the router to send information to a network management
application when a particular event occurs.
To define traps for the agent to send to the manager, use the following commands in global configuration mode.
Command Purpose
snmp-server host address
[traps|informs] [version {1|2c|
3
[auth|noauth|priv] }] community-string
[udp-port port-number]
Specify the recipient of the trap message. Traps and informs
are not currently supported for SNMPv3.
The 35516 can send an SNMP trap to its configured trap receivers if it detects a duplicate IP address. To turn on
duplicate IP detection, use the following command in global configuration mode:
Command Purpose
duplicate-ip detect Enable duplicate IP detection.
Disable the SNMP Protocol
To disable SNMP, use the following command in global configuration mode:
Command Purpose
no snmp-server Disable SNMP operation. This command disables all versions