Configuring SNMP Settings

Configure Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) settings for your everRun Enterprise system to allow SNMP management applications to remotely monitor your systems. (SNMP information pertains only to systems and not individual PMs.) You can enable SNMP requests and SNMP traps:

• SNMP request—a request sent to the everRun system to retrieve the values of objects listed in the Management Information Bases (MIBs) supported by the everRun software. These MIBs include an everRun-specific MIB that is a collection of objects describing the everRun system. For details about the everRun Enterprise MIB, see MIB File Contents.
• SNMP trap—a message initiated by the everRun system after an event such as an alert that is then sent to an identified list of recipients, typically a network management station (NMS).

To specify the desired security parameters, you must edit the standard /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file on both nodes. For example, to allow SNMP requests by any user using the default public community, comment out or delete the following lines from that file on each node:

After you save the edited files, you must restart the snmpd process on each node by entering the following command:

To enable SNMP requests

1. Click Preferences in the left-hand navigation panel, to open the Preference page.
2. Under Notification, click SNMP Configuration.
3. Activate the check box next to Enable SNMP Requests.
4. Click Save. (Or click Reset to restore the previously-saved values.)

To enable SNMP traps

1. Click Preferences in the left-hand navigation panel, to open the Preference page.
2. Under Notification, click SNMP Configuration.
3. Activate the check box next to Enable SNMP Traps.
4. Type the name of the SNMP Community, or keep the default (public).
5. Next to List of Recipients for SNMP traps, type the IP address or host name for each recipient, one per line.
6. Click Save. (Or click Reset to restore the previously saved values.)
7. Configure your organization's firewall to allow SNMP operations, as described below.
8. Generate a test alert, as described below.

To configure your firewall to allow SNMP operations

To enable SNMP management systems to receive alerts from and send traps to the everRun system, configure your organization's firewall to open the following ports:

To generate a test alert

Click Generate Test Alert. A test alert gets generated that triggers the delivery of SNMP traps. Watch the Alerts History log (see The Alerts Page) for delivery status. A sample SNMP trap is sent to all the recipients.