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76 Sun Storage Fibre Channel Switch 5802 QuickTools User Guide • September 2008
Note – Since Read Community, Trap Community, and Write Community
settings are like passwords and are write-only fields, the current settings are
displayed as asterisks.
FIGURE 3-11 SNMP Properties Dialog
SNMP Configuration
The SNMP configuration defines how authentication traps are managed.TABLE 3-7
describes the SNMP configuration parameters. The illegal characters for the user-
defined fields are the pound sign (#), semi-colon (;), and comma (,).
TABLE 3-7 SNMP Configuration Parameters
Parameter Description
SNMP Enabled Enables or disables SNMP communication with other switches in the
fabric. If disabled, the user cannot use an SNMP application at a
workstation to talk to the switch that has this setting disabled.
Contact Specifies the name (up to 64 characters) of the person who is to be
contacted to respond to trap events. The default is “undefined”.
Read Community Read community password (up to 32 characters) that authorizes an
SNMP agent to read information from the switch. This is a write-only
field. The value on the switch and the SNMP management server must
be the same. The default is “public”.