Basic SNMP Configuration Setup

This subsection provides a description of the required SNMP configuration when first accessing the SNMP agent running on the device.

To access the device’s SNMP agent, there are a few parameters that can be configured if you don't want to use default settings. The SNMP agent default settings include the following:

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SNMP agent is enabled.

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Port 161 in the agent is used for SNMP GET/SET commands.

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No default trap managers are defined and therefore, the device does not send traps.

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The trap destination port is 162.

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The SNMP agent is accessible to all SNMP managers (i.e., no trusted managers).

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SNMP protocol version is SNMPv2c with ‘public’ and ‘private’ as the read-only and read-write community strings, respectively.

Configuring these SNMP attributes is described in the following subsections: