Configuring Snmp; Setting Snmp Monitoring; Setting Snmp Read And Write Community Strings - Lucent Technologies PortMaster 4 Configuration Manual

Configuring SNMP

Table 3-8
Object
livingstonPMT1E1CallSumCapacity
livingstonPMT1E1CallSumV90Calls
livingstonPMT1E1CallSumV34Calls
livingstonPMT1E1CallSumOther
Configuring SNMP
The rest of this chapter describes how to configure SNMP using the command line
interface, and includes the following topics:
• "Setting SNMP Monitoring" on page 3-12
• "Setting SNMP Read and Write Community Strings" on page 3-12
• "Adding SNMP Read and Write Hosts" on page 3-13
• "Viewing SNMP Settings" on page 3-13
• "Monitoring SNMP Alarms" on page 3-14

Setting SNMP Monitoring

Simple Network Management protocol (SNMP) monitoring is used to set and collect
information on SNMP-capable devices. This feature is most often used to monitor
network statistics such as usage and error rate.
If SNMP monitoring is on, the PortMaster accepts SNMP queries. If SNMP monitoring is
off, all SNMP queries are ignored.
To turn SNMP monitoring on or off, use the following commands:
Command> set snmp on|off
Command> save all
Command> reboot

Setting SNMP Read and Write Community Strings

Community strings allow you to control access to the MIB information on selected
SNMP devices. The read and write community strings act like passwords to permit access
to the SNMP agent's information. Every device allowed to access or read the MIB
information must know the read community string. The default read community string
is public. Before information can be set on the SNMP agent, the write community
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PortMaster Line Call Summary MIB Table (Continued)
Definition
Sum of all types of calls handled by this T1 or
E1 line.
Sum of all V.90, K56flex and 56Kbps calls
handled by this T1 or E1 line.
Sum of all V.34, 33.6Kbps, and 28.8Kbps calls
handled by this T1 or E1 line.
Sum of all other types of calls not handled by
the other objects in this table.
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