Configuring Trap Managers (Notification Hosts) - Network Critical SmartNA-X User Manual

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Select community settings from the following fields:
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• Community string – Enter a secret/password string for the community to authenticate clients. The
community string is case-sensitive and must contain 1–32 alphanumeric characters (no spaces), and the first
character must be a letter.
• IP version – Specify whether this community allows access via IPv4 or IPv6.
• Source – (Optional) You may restrict access to the community from certain sources, by specifying the source
address, subnet or hostname.
• Type – Specify whether this community allows read-only or read-write access to clients.
• OID – (Optional) You may restrict access to the community to part of the MIB tree by specifying the OID.
Click Add community to finish setting up the community.
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Click Review/apply and review the changes you have made, and then click Apply to implement your changes.
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Using the web UI to configure SNMP communities
In the CLI, use the snmp create community communitySecret command to configure SNMP communities. For
example, to set up a community which is restricted to the subtree OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.31645 to clients on subnet
192.168.0.0/16, use the following command:
CONTROLLER>snmp create community communitysecret oid 1.3.6.1.4.1.31645 source 192.168.0.0/16
CONTROLLER>snmp apply
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Configuring trap managers (notification hosts)

A trap manager, or notification host, is a management station that receives and processes SNMP notifications.
Notifications are system alerts that the system integrated SNMP agent generates when certain events occur. By
default, no trap manager is defined and no notifications are issued by the system. The maximum number of
notification hosts supported by the system is 255.
Using the web UI to configure notifications hosts (trap managers)
Under the SNMP tab, select the SNMP enabled checkbox.
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Click Configure notification hosts. The "SNMP Notification Hosts" settings window appears.
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Click Add new notification host to set up a new host, or click
3.
"Add/Edit notification host" window appears.
Select notification host settings from the following fields:
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• Destination – Specify the location of the notification host. The format should be:
{protocol}:]{host}[:{port}]
where:
protocol may be udp or udp6
host may be a hostname or an IPv4 or IPv6 address
port is the UDP port on the host
• SNMP version – Specify whether notifications are be sent using SNMP v1, v2c or v3.
for information on the snmp create community command.
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