Snmp; About Snmp; External Manager; About External Managers - Cisco TelePresence Administrator's Manual

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System configuration
The SNMP page lets you configure the VCS's SNMP settings:
To go to the SNMP page:
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System configuration > SNMP
To configure SNMP settings using the CLI:
xConfiguration SNMP
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About SNMP

Tools such as Cisco TMS or HP OpenView may act as SNMP Network Management Systems (NMS).
They allow you to monitor your network devices, including the VCS, for conditions that might require
administrative attention.
The VCS supports the most basic MIB-II tree (.1.3.6.1.2.1) as defined in
information made available by the VCS includes the following:
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system uptime
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system name
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location
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contact
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interfaces
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disk space, memory, and other machine-specific statistics
To allow the VCS to be monitored by an SNMP NMS (including Cisco TMS), you must Enable
SNMP on the VCS and provide the name of the SNMP community within which it resides. You
may optionally provide the name of a System contact and the physical Location of the system for
reference by administrators when following up on queries.
By default, SNMP is Disabled with a SNMP community name of public.
SNMP is disabled by default because of the potentially sensitive nature of the information
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involved. Do not enable SNMP on a VCS on the public internet or in any other environment
where you do not want to expose internal system information.
The VCS does not support SNMP traps or SNMP sets, therefore it cannot be managed using

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About external managers

An external manager is a remote system, such as the Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (Cisco
TMS), used to monitor events occurring on the VCS, for example call attempts, connections and
disconnections. The use of an external manager is optional.
Configuration
The External manager page allows you to configure the VCS's external manager settings.
To go to the External manager page:
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System configuration > External manager
To configure external manager settings using the CLI:
xConfiguration ExternalManager
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The options are:
Address and path
To use an external manager, you must configure the VCS with the IP address or host name and path
of the external manager to be used.
If you are using Cisco TMS as your external manager, use the default path of
tms/public/external/management/SystemManagementService.asmx.
Protocol
This setting allows you to determine whether communications with the external manager are over
HTTP or HTTPS.
Certificate verification mode
You may also require that the VCS verifies the certificate presented by the external manager by
selecting a Certificate verification mode of On.
If you do this, you must also add the certificate of the issuer of the external manager's certificate
to the file containing the VCS's trusted CA certificates. This is done from the Security certificates
page (Maintenance > Security certificates).
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