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Cisco Wide Area Application Services Configuration Guide

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Configuring SNMP Monitoring

This chapter describes how to configure SNMP traps, recipients, community strings and group

associations, user security model groups, and user access permissions.

Note Throughout this chapter, the term WAAS device is used to refer collectively to the WAAS Central

Managers and WAEs in your network. The term WAE refers to WAE appliances, WAE Network Modules

(the NME-WAE family of devices), and SM-SRE modules running WAAS.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• About SNMP, page 1-1

• Checklist for Configuring SNMP, page 1-12

• Preparing for SNMP Monitoring, page 1-13

• Enabling SNMP Traps, page 1-13

• Defining SNMP Traps, page 1-16

• Specifying the SNMP Host, page 1-18

• Specifying the SNMP Community String, page 1-19

• Creating SNMP Views, page 1-20

• Creating an SNMP Group, page 1-21

• Creating an SNMP User, page 1-22

• Configuring SNMP Asset Tag Settings, page 1-24

• Configuring SNMP Contact Settings, page 1-24

• Configuring SNMP Trap Source Settings, page 1-24

About SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an interoperable standards-based protocol that allows

for external monitoring of WAAS devices through an SNMP agent.

An SNMP-managed network consists of the following primary components:

• Managed device—A network node that contains an SNMP agent and resides on a managed network.

Managed devices include routers, access servers, switches, bridges, hubs, computer hosts, and

printers. Each WAAS device running the WAAS software has an SNMP agent.