Administering SNMP

This topic provides information on administering the SNMP feature on the Message Networking system. See Simple Network Management Protocol overview for information on basic SNMP concepts and features.

Before you attempt to administer SNMP Network Management Stations (NMSs) for queries on the Message Networking system, make sure that your remote network and the Message Networking system are both TCP/IP enabled. See Administering TCP/IP LAN connectivity for administration procedures.

If you want to perform alarm notification via SNMP, you must administer the NMS to which Message Networking sends alarm notification. See your SNMP NMS application documentation for details about how to complete this task and confirm communication between the NMS and managed elements.

The tasks you must complete to administer SNMP on the Message Networking system depend on the version of SNMP you are using.

Notes:

• If you want to use SNMP for alarm notification, you must first transfer the appropriate MIBs to the NMSs you administer to receive alarm notification.
• For SNMP versions 1 and 2c, access to SNMP queries is controlled by communities and NMS addresses. For SNMP version 3, access to SNMP queries is controlled by user IDs.

For SNMP versions 1 and 2c, complete the following tasks in the following recommended order:

1. Start and enable the SNMP Service
2. Configuring MIB-II parameters
3. Administering SNMP communities
4. Administering SNMP NMSs for queries, if you choose to use SNMP for queries
5. Administering SNMP NMSs for alarms (secondary NMS), if you choose to use SNMP for alarms
6. Administering the alarm management, if you choose to administer alarm management via SNMP (primary NMS)

For SNMP version 3, complete the following tasks in the following recommended order:

1. Start and enable the SNMP Service
2. Configuring MIB-II parameters
3. Administering SNMP users, if you choose to use SNMP for queries
4. Administering SNMP communities, if you choose to use SNMP for alarms
5. Administering SNMP NMSs for alarms (secondary NMS), if you choose to use SNMP for alarms
6. Administering the alarm management, if you choose to administer alarm management via SNMP (primary NMS)

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