Setting Up Snmp Notifications; Configuring The Snmp Agent - HP IBRIX X9720 System Administrator Manual

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Setting up SNMP notifications

X9000 software supports SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) V1 and V2.
Steps for setting up SNMP include:
Agent configuration (all SNMP versions)
Trapsink configuration (all SNMP versions)
Associating event notifications with trapsinks (all SNMP versions)
X9000 software implements an SNMP agent that supports the private X9000 software MIB. The
agent can be polled and can send SNMP traps to configured trapsinks.
Setting up SNMP notifications is similar to setting up email notifications. You must associate events
to trapsinks and configure SNMP settings for each trapsink to enable the agent to send a trap
when an event occurs.
NOTE: When Phone Home is enabled, you cannot edit or change the configuration of the X9000
SNMP agent with the ibrix_snmpagent. However, you can add trapsink IPs with
ibrix_snmtrap and can associate events to the trapsink IP with ibrix_event.

Configuring the SNMP agent

The SNMP agent is created automatically when the Fusion Manager is installed. It is initially
configured as an SNMPv2 agent and is off by default.
Some SNMP parameters and the SNMP default port are the same, regardless of SNMP version.
The default agent port is 161. SYSCONTACT, SYSNAME, and SYSLOCATION are optional MIB-II
agent parameters that have no default values.
NOTE: The default SNMP agent port was changed from 5061 to 161 in the X9000 6.1 release.
This port number cannot be changed.
The -c and -s options are also common to all SNMP versions. The -c option turns the encryption
of community names and passwords on or off. There is no encryption by default. Using the -s
option toggles the agent on and off; it turns the agent on by starting a listener on the SNMP port,
and turns it off by shutting off the listener. The default is off.
The format for a v1 or v2 update command follows:
ibrix_snmpagent -u –v {1|2} [-p PORT] [-r READCOMMUNITY] [-w WRITECOMMUNITY]
[-t SYSCONTACT] [-n SYSNAME] [-o SYSLOCATION] [-c {yes|no}] [-s {on|off}]
The update command for SNMPv1 and v2 uses optional community names. By convention, the
default READCOMMUNITY name used for read-only access and assigned to the agent is public.
No default WRITECOMMUNITY name is set for read-write access (although the name private is
often used).
The following command updates a v2 agent with the write community name private, the agent's
system name, and that system's physical location:
ibrix_snmpagent -u –v 2 -w private -n agenthost.domain.com -o DevLab-B3-U6
: mail.hp.com
: FM@hp.com
: MIS@hp.com
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