Configuring The Snmp Agent - Intermec 6400 User Manual

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Configuring the SNMP Agent

You can run the SNMP agent using its default
configurations, or you can modify those configurations.
SNMP configuration files are
COMMUNIT.CNF, the SNMP community file
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TRAPCOMM.CNF, the SNMP error condition (trap)
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file
The 6400 TCP/IP client software files contain samples of
TRAPCOMM.CNF and COMMUNIT.CNF, each containing
configuration instructions. If the configuration files are not
formatted correctly, the SNMP agent displays various error
messages and aborts.
To configure an SNMP agent for your system:
1. Use a text editor to add entries to COMMUNIT.CNF.
The file contains entries that define SNMP community
names, IP addresses, and privileges (NONE, READ,
and WRITE) used to validate incoming SNMP request
packets.
If a community specified in an incoming packet is not
authorized for the operation that it requests, the
request is discarded and an SNMP error condition
message (trap) may be sent (if specified in
TRAPCOMM.CNF).
To allow an SNMP management station to set values in your
read-write–accessible MIB variables, you must set your
community privilege type to WRITE.
Each entry in COMMUNIT.CNF must define a
community name, an IP address (in dot notation), and
the appropriate privilege (in uppercase). For example:
interop 128.127.53.190 READ
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