Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switch CLI Software Configuration Guide (OL-16597-01, July 2009)

CHAPTER 28
Configuring SNMP
This chapter describes the configuration of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) on Cisco
Nexus 5000 Series switches and contains the following sections:
• Information About SNMP, page 375
• Configuration Guidelines and Limitations, page 379
• Configuring SNMP, page 379
• Verifying SNMP Configuration, page 386
• Default SNMP Settings, page 386
Information About SNMP
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application-layer protocol that provides a message
format for communication between SNMP managers and agents. SNMP provides a standardized framework
and a common language used for the monitoring and management of devices in a network.
SNMP Functional Overview
The SNMP framework consists of three parts:
• An SNMP manager—The system used to control and monitor the activities of network devices using
SNMP.
• An SNMP agent—The software component within the managed device that maintains the data for the
device and reports these data, as needed, to managing systems. The Cisco Nexus 5000 Series switch
supports the agent and MIB. To enable the SNMP agent, you must define the relationship between the
manager and the agent.
• A managed information base (MIB)—The collection of managed objects on the SNMP agent
Cisco NX-OS does not support SNMP sets for Ethernet MIBs.Note
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