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FCD-E1 SNMP Environment B-1
Appendix B
SNMP Management
B.1 Scope
This appendix provides the specific information required for the management of
the FCD-E1 by means of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
B.2 SNMP Environment
General
The SNMP management functions of the FCD-E1 are provided by an internal
SNMP agent, which can use inband and out-of-band communication.
The SNMP management communication uses the User Datagram Protocol (UDP).
UDP is a connectionless-mode transport protocol, part of the suite of protocols of
the Internet Protocol (IP).
Telnet management uses the TCP protocol over IP for management communication.
After a Telnet session is started, the management interface is similar to that used for
the supervision terminal (Configuration).
This section covers the information related to the SNMP environment. For a
description of the IP environment, refer to section B.3.
SNMP Principles
The SNMP management protocol is an asynchronous command/response polling
protocol. All the management traffic is initiated by the SNMP-based network
management station, which addresses the managed entities in its management
domain. Only the addressed managed entity answers the polling of the
management station (except for trap messages).
The managed entities include a function called an “SNMP agent”, which is
responsible for interpretation and handling of the management station requests to
the managed entity, and the generation of properly-formatted responses to the
management station.
Note