Technical data

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SNMP
Configuration notes
• You must deploy at least one RADIUS server in your network to provide authentication services.
• Brocade devices support authentication using up to five RADIUS servers. The device tries to
use the servers in the order you add them to the device’s configuration. If one RADIUS server is
not responding, the Brocade device tries the next one in the list.
• You can use the authentication login command to select a sequence of authentication
methods for all types of access to a device (CLI through Telnet, CLI Exec and CLI Privileged Exec
levels). Use the authentication enable command to specify the sequence of authentication
methods to use when changing from Normal Exec command mode to Privileged Exec
command mode with the enable command.
• RADIUS command authorization can be performed only for commands entered from Telnet or
SSH sessions, or from the console. No authorization is performed for commands entered at
the Web management interface or for SNMP management applications.
SNMP
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) forms part of the Internet Protocol (IP) suite as
defined by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). SNMP is used in network management
systems to monitor network-attached devices administration and management.
SNMP is enabled by default on Brocade devices. SNMP must be enabled in order to manage a
Brocade device using SNMP management applications.
SNMP show commands
show snmp
Syntax: show snmp
This command displays both the read-only and read-write community strings.
To display the SNMP community string, enter the following command.
Console# show snmp
SNMP Agent : Enabled
SNMP Traps :
Authentication : Enabled
Link-up-down : Enabled
SNMP Communities :
1. public, and the access level is read-only
2. private, and the access level is read/write
0 SNMP packets input
0 Bad SNMP version errors
0 Unknown community name
0 Illegal operation for community name supplied
0 Encoding errors
0 Number of requested variables
0 Number of altered variables
0 Get-request PDUs