Entering Community Strings; Adding Trap Managers - Cisco WS-C2955T-12 Software Manual

Chapter 6 Configuring the System

Entering Community Strings

Community strings serve as passwords for SNMP messages, permitting access to the agent on the switch.
If you are entering community strings for a cluster member, see the
on page
Read-only (RO)—Requests accompanied by the string can display MIB-object information.
Read-write (RW)—Requests accompanied by the string can display MIB-object information and set
MIB objects.
For CLI procedures, refer to the Cisco IOS Release 12.0 documentation on Cisco.com for additional
information and CLI procedures.

Adding Trap Managers

A trap manager is a management station that receives and processes traps. When you configure a trap
manager, the community strings for each member switch must be unique. If a member switch has an
assigned IP address, the management station accesses the switch by using that IP address.
By default, no trap manager is defined, and no traps are issued.
can configure on the Catalyst 2900 XL and Catalyst 3500 XL. You can enable any or all of these traps
and configure a trap manager on these switches to receive them.
Table 6-4 Catalyst 2900 XL and Catalyst 3500 XL SNMP Traps
c2900/C3500 Generate the switch-specific traps. These traps are in the private enterprise-specific MIB.
c2900 Generate these traps:
Secure address violation
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Broadcast storm
•
RPS failed (power supply failure)
•
cluster Generate cluster member status change traps.
config Generate configuration management event traps and configuration copy traps.
hsrp Generate Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) state change traps.
mac-notification Generate MAC notification event traps.
snmp Generate coldstart, linkdown, linkup, and authentication failure traps.
tty Generate management-console-CLI-session start traps.
vlan membership Generate VLAN Membership Policy Server (VMPS) change traps.
vtp Generate these VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) traps:
VTP configuration revision error
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VTP configuration digest error
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VTP server disabled error
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• VTP data too big error
• vtpVlanRingNumberConfigConflict (for Token Ring only)
• vtpVersionOneDeviceDetected
• vlanTrunkPortDynamicStatusChange
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5-16. You can enter community strings with these characteristics:
Catalyst 2900 Series XL and Catalyst 3500 Series XL Software Configuration Guide
Configuring SNMP
"SNMP Community Strings" section
Table 6-4 describes SNMP traps that you
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