User Guide

System and Network Management 187
Chapter 14
If the administrator is using SNMPv3 for getting the values from the Alcatel
Mobility Controller, follow the steps below to configure valid users for
SNMPv3:
1. Click Add in the SNMPv3 users section to add a new SNMPv3 user.
4. Read Community
Strings
Community strings used to
authenticate requests for
SNMP versions before
version 3. Note: This is
needed only if using SNMP
v2c and is not needed if
using version 3.
These are the
community strings that
are allowed to access
the SNMP data from the
switch.
5. Enable Trap Generation Enables generation of
SNMP traps to configured
SNMP trap receivers. Refer
to the list of traps in the
“SNMP traps” section
below for a list of traps that
are generated by the
Alcatel Mobility Controller.
Select this option and
configure the details of
the trap receivers to
enable generation of
traps for various events
by the Alcatel Mobility
Controller.
6. Trap receivers Host information about a
trap receiver. This host
needs to be running a trap
receiver to receive and
interpret the traps sent by
the Alcatel Mobility
Controller
Configure the following
for each host/trap
receiver:
z IP address
z SNMP version: can
be 1 or 2c.
z Community string
z UDP port on which
the trap receiver is
listening for traps.
The default is the
UDP port number
162. This is
OPTIONAL, and will
use the default port
number if not modi-
fied by the user.