Setting Up Snmp Management; Prerequisite - 3Com SuperStack 3 3870 Getting Started Manual

Setting Up SNMP
Management

Prerequisite

If you get an error message, check that your IP information has been
entered correctly and the Switch is powered on.
3 Start your Web browser and enter the IP address of the Switch that you
want to manage in the Address bar, for example, in the following format:
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
4 At the login and password prompts, enter admin as your user name and
press Return at the password prompt (or the password of your choice if
you have already modified the default passwords).
5 Click Device View 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, which is available
for download from the 3Com Web site. You can also use the 3Com
Network Director (Version 2.0) to manage your Switch via SNMP. This
optional network management application can be purchased directly
from the 3Com Web site. If you use either of these network management
applications, it will automatically load 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. If you use an
SNMPv3 network management application, you should also specify the
user authentication and data encryption methods. You can do this using
the command line interface security device user command. Refer
to the command line interface section of the "Management Interface
Reference Guide" for more information.

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