
Configuring SNMP, RMON, BOOTP, DHCP, and RARP Services
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For security reasons, the SNMP agent validates each request from an SNMP
manager before responding to the request, by verifying that the manager belongs
to an SNMP community with access privileges to the agent.
An SNMP community is a logical relationship between an SNMP agent and one
or more SNMP managers. The community has a name, and all members of a
community have the same access privileges: either read-only (members can view
configuration and performance information) or read-write (members can view
configuration and performance information, and also change the configuration).
All SNMP message exchanges consist of a community name and a data field,
which contains the SNMP operation and its associated operands. You can
configure the SNMP agent to receive requests and send responses only from
managers that are members of a known community. If the agent knows the
community name in the SNMP message and knows that the manager generating
the request is a member of that community, it considers the message to be
authentic and gives it the access allowed for members of that community. Thus,
the SNMP community prevents unauthorized managers from viewing or changing
the configuration of a router.
SNMP Implementation Notes
This section contains information about features specific to the Bay Networks
implementation of SNMP.
Internet Protocol (IP)
SNMP uses the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) to transport its messages. You
must enable IP in order to use UDP and SNMP.
Thresholds
SNMP uses a MIB (management information base) to manage the router. The
MIB includes an extensive collection of statistics (MIB variables) that track the
router’s performance and provide early warnings of abnormal operating
conditions.
With the Site Manager threshold feature, you can configure the agent to
automatically notify the network manager when specific statistics (or instances of
the variable) reach certain levels.
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