Entering Community Strings; Adding Trap Managers - Cisco WS-C2950-24 Configuration Manual

Chapter 6 Configuring the System

Entering Community Strings

Adding Trap Managers

Table 6-2 Catalyst 2900 XL and Catalyst 3500 XL Switch Traps
Config
SNMP
TTY
VLAN membership
VTP
C2900/C3500
78-6511-05
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 "SNMP Community Strings" section on page
community strings with the following characteristics:
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.
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.
describes the Catalyst 2900 XL and Catalyst 3500 XL switch traps. You can
enable any or all of these traps and configure a trap manager on these switches to
receive them.
Generate traps whenever the switch configuration changes.
Generate the supported SNMP traps.
Generate traps when the switch starts a management console CLI session.
Generate a trap for each VLAN Membership Policy Server (VMPS) change.
Generate a trap for each VLAN Trunk Protocol (VTP) change.
Generate the switch-specific traps. These traps are in the private
enterprise-specific Management Information Base (MIB).
Catalyst 2900 Series XL and Catalyst 3500 Series XL Software Configuration Guide
Configuring SNMP
5-10. You can enter
Table 6-2
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