Users Guide

Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is designed to manage devices on IP networks by monitoring device operation, which
might require administrator intervention.
NOTE: On Dell Networking routers, standard and private SNMP management information bases (MIBs) are supported, including
all Get and a limited number of Set operations (such as set vlan and copy cmd).
Topics:
• Protocol Overview
• Implementation Information
• SNMPv3 Compliance With FIPS
• Conguration Task List for SNMP
• Important Points to Remember
• Set up SNMP
• Reading Managed Object Values
• Writing Managed Object Values
• Conguring Contact and Location Information using SNMP
• Subscribing to Managed Object Value Updates using SNMP
• Enabling a Subset of SNMP Traps
• Enabling an SNMP Agent to Notify Syslog Server Failure
• Copy Conguration Files Using SNMP
• MIB Support to Display the Available Memory Size on Flash
• MIB Support to Display the Software Core Files Generated by the System
• Manage VLANs using SNMP
• Managing Overload on Startup
• Enabling and Disabling a Port using SNMP
• Fetch Dynamic MAC Entries using SNMP
• Deriving Interface Indices
• Monitor Port-Channels
• Enabling an SNMP Agent to Notify Syslog Server Failure
• Troubleshooting SNMP Operation
Protocol Overview
Network management stations use SNMP to retrieve or alter management data from network elements.
A datum of management information is called a managed object; the value of a managed object can be static or variable. Network elements
store managed objects in a database called a management information base (MIB).
MIBs are hierarchically structured and use object identiers to address managed objects, but managed objects also have a textual name
called an object descriptor.
You can download the latest MIB les from the following path:
• https://www.force10networks.com/CSPortal20/Main/SupportMain.aspx.
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