Grass Valley iControl V.6.02 User Manual
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iControl and SNMP
Creating a GSM SNMP Agent for all Alarms
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An icon labeled SNMP Agent appears in the Global actions list.
All alarms located in the iControl folder of the GSM Alarm Browser of the currently selected
GSM are now available to be polled or queried by a third party SNMP Manager.
To do this...
...do this...
Configure an SNMP agent.
1. In the SNMP Agent Configuration window, type a name for this plugin.
2. In the Community box, type an SNMP community string.
Only client requests with identical text are processed.
By default, the value is set to
public
.
3. In the Port list, select the Application Server port number to which the agent listens
for client requests.
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4. In the Trap configuration area, click Add.
5. In the trap target that appears, in the Host column, type an IP address for the trap
target.
6. In the same row (same trap target), in the Port column, type the trap target’s port
number to which the trap will be sent.
7. [OPTIONAL] In the same row, in the Description column, type a description of the
trap target.
8. Specify the trap version.
9. Assign a trap number (used to identify this trap from others).
10. Click OK.
1. Make sure the port is not already being used by another process running on the same Application
Server.
Remove a trap target from
an SNMP agent.
1. In the SNMP Agent Configuration window, in the Trap targets list, select the target
you would like to remove.
2. Click Remove.
3. Click OK.
Note: The Global actions list may take several seconds to update. Alternatively,
you may click Refresh to manually update the list.
Note: The SNMP OIDs specific to Grass Valley devices and to the iControl GSM agent
and traps are contained in MIB files (
GSM-MIB.mib
and the
MIRANDA-MIB.mib
)
available from Grass Valley Technical Support (see