Users Guide

Conguring Contact and Location Information using
SNMP
You may congure system contact and location information from the Dell Networking system or from the management station using
SNMP.
To congure system contact and location information from the Dell Networking system and from the management station using SNMP, use
the following commands.
• (From a Dell Networking system) Identify the system manager along with this person’s contact information (for example, an email
address or phone number).
CONFIGURATION mode
snmp-server contact text
You may use up to 55 characters.
The default is None.
• (From a Dell Networking system) Identify the physical location of the system (for example, San Jose, 350 Holger Way, 1st oor lab, rack
A1-1).
CONFIGURATION mode
snmp-server location text
You may use up to 55 characters.
The default is None.
• (From a management station) Identify the system manager along with this person’s contact information (for example, an email address
or phone number).
CONFIGURATION mode
snmpset -v version -c community agent-ip sysContact.0 s “contact-info”
You may use up to 55 characters.
The default is None.
• (From a management station) Identify the physical location of the system (for example, San Jose, 350 Holger Way, 1st oor lab, rack
A1-1).
CONFIGURATION mode
snmpset -v version -c community agent-ip sysLocation.0 s “location-info”
You may use up to 55 characters.
The default is None.
Subscribing to Managed Object Value Updates using
SNMP
By default, the Dell Networking system displays some unsolicited SNMP messages (traps) upon certain events and conditions.
You can also congure the system to send the traps to a management station. Traps cannot be saved on the system.
Dell Networking OS supports the following three sets of traps:
• RFC 1157-dened traps — coldStart, warmStart, linkDown, linkUp, authenticationFailure, and egpNeighbborLoss.
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Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)