Specifications
Browsing Equalizer Configurations using SNMP
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Enabling the SNMP Agent
The SNMP agent responds to outside SNMP requests, usually from an SNMP management station.
To configure the SNMP agent, follow these steps from the Equalizer Administration Interface in
Edit mode.
1. Choose Equalizer > Global Configuration from the main menu.
2. In the modify system parameters screen, select menu > SNMP. The SNMP settings screen
appears in the right frame (see Figure 55).
Figure55 The SNMP settings screen.
3. Enter values for the system description, system location, system contact, and system name.
Description is the user-assigned description of the Equalizer. Location describes its physical
location. Contact is the name of the person responsible for this unit. Name is the administrative
name for the Equalizer.
4. Enter a value for the community string. Any SNMP management console needs to send the
correct community string along with all SNMP requests. If the sent community string is not
correct, Equalizer discards the request and will not respond.
5. Enter an address and port in trap IP address:port. This specifies the IP address and port to
which trap messages should be sent. Usually this is the IP address of the machine running the
SNMP management station application. The port number used by default is 162, which is the
default port used by SNMP management stations; it must match the port on which the SNMP
management station is listening for traps.