Reference Guide

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) | 853
To configure the system to send SNMP notifications, follow these steps:
The following table lists the traps the RFC-defined SNMP traps and the command used to enable each.
Note that the coldStart and warmStart traps are enabled using a single command.
Enable a subset of Dell Networking enterprise specific SNMP traps using one of the command options
listed in the following table with the command
snmp-server enable traps. Note that the envmon option
enables all environment traps including those that are enabled with the
envmon temperature option.
Step Task Command Command Mode
1 Configure the Dell Networking system to send
notifications to an SNMP server.
• Enter the keyword
traps to send trap messages.
• Enter the keyword
informs to send
informational messages.
• Enter the keyword
version to send the SNMP
version to use for notification messages.
• Enter the name of the
community-string to
identify the SNMPv1 community string.
snmp-server host ip-address
[traps | informs] [version 1 | 2c
|3] [community-string]
CONFIGURATION
2
Specify which traps the Dell Networking system
sends to the trap receiver.
• Enable all Dell Networking enterpriseSpecific
and RFC-defined traps using the
command
snmp-server enable traps from
CONFIGURATION mode.
• Enable all of the RFC-defined traps using the
command
snmp-server enable traps snmp
from CONFIGURATION mode.
snmp-server enable traps
CONFIGURATION
3
Specify the interfaces out of which FTOS sends
SNMP traps.
snmp-server trap-source
CONFIGURATION
Table 47-1. RFC 1157 Defined SNMP Traps on FTOS
Command Option Trap
snmp authentication
SNMP_AUTH_FAIL:SNMP Authentication failed.Request with invalid community string.
snmp coldstart
SNMP_COLD_START: Agent Initialized - SNMP COLD_START.
SNMP_WARM_START: Agent Initialized - SNMP WARM_START.
snmp linkdown
PORT_LINKDN:changed interface state to down:%d
snmp linkup
PORT_LINKUP:changed interface state to up:%d