Setting Up Snmp Management; Pre-Requisites - 3Com 3C17203 Getting Started Manual

Setting Up SNMP
Management

Pre-requisites

If you get an error message, check that your IP information has been
entered correctly and the Switch is powered up.
3 Open your web browser and enter the IP address of the Switch that you
wish to manage in the URL locator, for example, in the following format:
http:// xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
4 At the login and password prompts, enter
press Return at the password prompt (or the password of your choice if
you have already modified the default passwords).
5 Click on the Device View button to display the web management options.
Any network management application running the Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) can manage a Switch if:
The correct Management Information Bases (MIBs) are installed on the
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management workstation.
The management workstation is connected to the Switch using a port
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in VLAN 1 (the Default VLAN). By default, all ports on the Switch are in
VLAN 1.
You can use the 3Com Network Supervisor application that is provided on
the CD-ROM that accompanies your Switch to provide SNMP
management for your Switch. If you use 3Com Network Supervisor it
automatically loads the correct MIBs and necessary files onto your
workstation.
Documentation supplied with the SNMP network management
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application software.
To manage your Switch using an SNMP network management
application, you need to specify SNMP community strings for the users
defined on the Switch. You can do this using the command line interface
system management snmp community command — refer to the
command line interface section of the "SuperStack 3 Switch
Management Interface Reference Guide" for more information.

Setting Up SNMP Management

as your user name and
admin
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