Using the HP DTC 16RX Manager

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About SNMP configuration
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About SNMP configuration
SNMP is an open-systems standard that allows a DTC to be interrogated by any
authorized SNMP network management workstation, such as a workstation running
HP OpenView Network Node Manager. Security is provided by authorization filters
which list the management workstations allowed to access the DTC.
The SNMP information for the DTC is stored in a MIB (Management Information
Base). For example, the MIB contains information such as the physical location of
the DTC and whether the DTC should report unauthorized access attempts to the
SNMP manager. Two types of MIB are available: MIB-II allows the SNMP manager
to access the standard MIB objects; DTC MIB allows the SNMP manager to access
the standard MIB-II objects as well as HP-UX MIB objects.
There are two SNMP configuration screens in the DTC Manager:
• SNMP Authorization Filters—identifies the SNMP managers, the information
that can be requested and whether the managers have write access to the SNMP
MIB data.
• SNMP MIB Data Parameters—defines the SNMP data stored on the DTC.
Note The procedures described in this chapter are accessed from the DTC Rear Panel
Configuration screen. This screen is opened when you execute the commands
rdtcadd or rdtcmodify.
rdtcadd adds a single DTC to your network and opens the Rear Panel
Configuration screen to let you modify the configuration.
rdtcmodify opens the Rear Panel Configuration screen of the specified DTC.