Visara Master Console Center Administration Guide - Manual (Page 111)

Chapter 7 Setting Up SNMP
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Definitions
ƒ An SNMP agent is a managed host that can communicate using the SNMP
protocol.
ƒ SNMP Agent Group. Within the MCC, the concept of SNMP agent groups is
simply a logical grouping of SNMP agents. Agent groups are useful within Event
Manager for limiting an SNMP trap event rule to some, but not all, of the
configured agents.
Configuring an SNMP Agent
To configure a new SNMP agent or modify an existing agent:
Figure 11 SNMP Agent window
1. From the Agents tab, click the New or Modify button (depending on
what you are trying to accomplish). The SNMP Agent window appears.
2. Enter the information in the appropriate text boxes:
Alias The name to use within the MCC. It is possible to configure multiple agent
entries for the same SNMP agent, specifying different values for Community,
Trap, and MIB ports.
Note: It is strongly recommended that the Alias name match the OS
name on the host. This makes it possible to use the OS name as
the $alias parameter for SNMP script commands. Otherwise, a
script has no way of knowing what the SNMP agent name is.
Host Name. This is the host name or IP address of the agent.