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7. SNMP Management
The Everon system supports SNMP protocol, which allows standard monitoring via a large variety of 3rd party
endpoint monitoring tools, also known as SNMP manager agents (e.g., HP OpenView, CA Unicenter, IBM
Tivoli, CastelRock SNMPc): The Everon system sends indications on system events and failures to a user-
defined monitoring destination-address, by sending SNMP protocol traps. Integration between the Everon
system and the monitoring agent, is done by loading Everon MIB files (Management Information Base) to the
SNMP manager agent. These files include system driver-like data required for the two systems to
communicate, where one of the parameters is a binding table (provided here in section 0), which allows
interpretation of the supported traps sent by Everon.
Everon supports simultaneously two SNMP protocol versions - SNMPv2 and SNMPv3. This allows system
monitoring by multiple tools that support different SNMP protocol versions.
 SNMPv2 is enabled by default and can be disabled by the user. The user can also modify the community
string, which is an ID of the SNMP device used for communication with the SNMP manager. The
community string is sent with all SNMP requests.
 SNMPv3 provides a secure SNMP protocol and facilitates remote configuration of the SNMP entities,
thus simplifying remote administration. The security aspect is addressed by offering both strong
authentication and data encryption for privacy, whereas the administration aspect focuses on
notification originators and proxy forwarders. SNMPv3 authentication and security:
 Verification for each received SNMP message that it has not been modified during transmission
through the network.
 Verification of the user identity for which the received SNMP message was supposedly generated.
 Detection of received SNMP messages, requesting or containing management information, whose
time of generation is not recent.
Note: Everon allows the user to perform system configurations via the SNMP manager.
¾ To allow SNMP monitoring, the user needs to perform the following steps:
1. Perform SNMP Setup, see Error! Reference source not found.
2. Optional: Test the configuration using a MIB browser, see 7.2
3. Start monitoring the system
Notes:
* The supported traps are listed in section 7.3
* The information each trap includes is listed in section Error! Reference source not found..