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SonicWALL Management
SonicWALL SNMP Support
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a network protocol used over User
Datagram Protocol (UDP) that allows network administrators to monitor the status of the
SonicWALL Internet Security appliances and receive notification of any critical events as
they occur on the network. SonicWALL Internet security appliances support SNMP v1/v2c
and all relevant Management Information Base II (MIBII) groups except egp and at. The
SonicWALL replies to SNMP Get commands for MIBII via any interface and supports a
custom SonicWALL MIB for generating trap messages. The custom SonicWALL MIB is
available for download from the SonicWALL website and can be loaded into third-party
SNMP management software such as HP Openview, Tivoli, or SNMPC.
To configure SNMP in the SonicWALL Internet Security appliance, log into the SonicWALL
Management interface. Click Access, then Management. The SNMP configuration panel
is displayed.
The SonicWALL SNMP agent generates two traps: Cold Start Trap and Alert Traps. Cold
Start Traps indicates that the SonicWALL appliance is re-initializing itself so that the agent
configuration or the appliance can be altered. Alert Traps are based on the existing
SonicWALL alert messages which allows the trap messages to share a common message
string with the alerts. Accordingly, no trap message can exist without a corresponding alert
message.
To configure SNMP, type in the necessary information in the following fields:
1. To enable the SNMP agent, select Enable SNMP.
2. Type in the System Name. This is the hostname of the SonicWALL appliance.
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