Legacy Open Mesh: Switches: SNMP

Topic

This article describes how to configure SNMP on Open Mesh Switches.

Environment

  • Open Mesh Switches

Description

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a network protocol used in monitoring and managing network devices. Devices use this protocol to send messages containing device information and critical notifications.

A Network Management System (NMS) that supports SNMP messages is required to use SNMP.

Procedure

Navigation

1. Navigate to Manage ? Switches and select a switch.

2. Click Switch Settings.

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Figure 1: Switch Settings

3. Click the SNMP dropdown to reveal settings, then click the Enable checkbox to interact with them.

4. Click Save Switch Settings when you are finished modifying settings.

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Figure 2: Enabling SNMP

Configuration

The following settings are available for SNMP:

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Figure 3: SNMP

  • Version: This setting lets you choose between SNMPv1 or SNMPv2c.
  • Poll Community: This lets you input the Poll Community String if required by the NMS.
  • Notify Type: This setting lets you choose the type of message sent out. Informs are only supported on SNMPv2c.
  • Trap Destination: This setting allows you to specify the trap message's IP address.
  • Trap Community: This setting lets you input the Trap Community String if required by the NMS.
  • UDP: This setting lets you specify the UDP port used in communicating to the NMS.
  • Retry (SNMPv2c Only): Use this setting to define the number of times the switch will retry the notification delivery after timing out.
  • Timeout (SNMPv2c Only): Use this setting to define the amount of time (in seconds) the switch will wait for a confirmation of notification delivery before timing out.