WMI for Administrators > Configuration > Network > SNMP

SNMP
Short for Simple Network Management Protocol, SNMP is a set of protocols for managing network devices. SNMP works by sending messages, called protocol data units (PDUs), to different parts of a network. SNMP-compliant devices (agents), store data about themselves in Management Information Bases (MIBs) and return this data to the SNMP requesters.
The KVM/net uses the Net-SNMP package (http://www.net-snmp.org/). The Net-SNMP package contains various tools relating to the Simple Network Management Protocol including an extensible agent, an SNMP library, tools to request or set information from SNMP agents, tools to generate and handle SNMP traps, a version of the unix 'netstat' command using SNMP, and a Tk/Perl mib browser.
SNMP is configured with community names, OID and user names. The KVM/net supports SNMP v1, v2, and v3. The two versions require different configurations. SNMP v1/v2 requires community, source, object ID and the type of community (read-write, read-only). V3 requires user name.
Important:
Check the SNMP configuration before gathering information about KVM/net by SNMP. An unauthorized user can implement different types of attacks to retrieve sensitive information contained in the MIB. By default, the SNMP configuration in KVM/net cannot permit the public community to read SNMP information.
To Configure SNMP
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The SNMP form appears.
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The community name acts as a password to authenticate messages sent between an SNMP client and a router containing an SNMP server. The community name is sent in every packet between the client and the server.
The email of the person to contact regarding the host on which the agent is running (for example, me@mymachine.mydomain)
If you are using SNMPv3, skip to Step 6.
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To Add an SNMP agent using SNMPv1/SNMP2 Configuration, select the Add button located at the bottom of this view table.
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To edit an SNMP agent, select the Edit button.
The New/Modify SNMP Daemon Configuration dialog box appears.
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The community name acts as a password to authenticate messages sent between an SNMP client and a router containing an SNMP server. The community name is sent in every packet between the client and the server.
Read Only – Read-only access to the entire MIB except for SNMP configuration objects.
Read/Write – Read-write access to the entire MIB except for SNMP configuration objects.
Admin – Read-write access to the entire MIB.
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If you are adding or editing an SNMP agent using SNMPv3, scroll down to the lower half of the SNMP Configuration form and select the Add button located at the bottom of this view table
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The New/Modify SNMP Daemon Configuration dialog box.
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Read Only – Read-only access to the entire MIB except for SNMP configuration objects.
Read/Write – Read-write access to the entire MIB except for SNMP configuration objects.
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WMI for Administrators > Configuration > Network > SNMP