You use the SNMP page in the HCP System Management Console to enable and configure SNMP for HCP. You also use this page to test the connections to the SNMP managers that you specify.
To display the SNMP page, in the top-level menu of the System Management Console, select Monitoring ► SNMP.
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Roles: To view the SNMP page, you need the monitor, administrator, security, or compliance role. To configure SNMP for HCP and test connections to SNMP managers, you need the administrator or security role. |
To enable and configure SNMP for HCP, on the SNMP page:
•Specify SNMP settings:
oTo enable all uses of SNMP with HCP, select Enable SNMP at snmp.hcp-domain-name.
oOptionally, select Allow writes/updates of HCP settings through SNMP to allow users to change the HCP system configuration through SNMP. This option applies only when SNMP is enabled.
oTo indicate the version of SNMP you want to use, select either Use version 1 or 2c or Use version 3.
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Note: SNMP version 1 does not support fields with the Counter64 data type. In the HCP MIB, several fields have that data type. When you use SNMP version 1 to retrieve system information, it will not return values for those fields. |
oTo secure access to HCP through SNMP:
–For SNMP version 1 or 2c, type the name of a community in the Community field. Community names can contain can be from 1 through 63 characters long and are case sensitive.
–For SNMP version 3:
•In the New Password field, type a password to go with the system-supplied name in the Username field. Passwords must be at least eight characters long and can contain any valid UTF-8 characters, including white space; however, the recommended usage is to limit the password to only ASCII characters. Passwords are case sensitive.
If you’re modifying the SNMP settings and you leave the New Password field empty, the previously set password remains in effect.
•In the Confirm Password field, type the password again.
•In the Community field, type a community access string. Community access strings can contain only alphanumeric characters and hyphens (-) and can be from 1 through 63 characters long. These strings are case sensitive.
oTo include log messages about compliance events with the messages sent to the specified SNMP managers, select Send compliance events.
oTo include log messages about security events with the messages sent to the specified SNMP managers, select Send security events.
oIn the Send log messages at this level or higher field, select the severity level of log messages to be sent to the specified SNMP managers:
–OFF tells HCP not to send any log messages.
–NOTICE sends messages with a severity level of Notice, Warning, or Error.
–WARNING sends messages with a severity level of Warning or Error.
–ERROR sends only messages with a severity level of Error.
Then click Update Settings.
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Tip: Before you submit your changes, you can test the connections to the specified SNMP managers, as described in Testing SNMP connections. |
•Optionally, specify IP addresses to be allowed access to HCP through SNMP. To do this:
1.Click the Allow tab.
2.Follow the instructions in Adding and removing entries in Allow and Deny lists.
•Optionally, specify IP addresses to be denied access to HCP through SNMP. To do this:
1.Click the Deny tab.
2.Follow the instructions in Adding and removing entries in Allow and Deny lists.
•To specify how HCP should handle IP addresses that appear in both or neither of the Allow and Deny lists, select or deselect Allow request when same IP is used in both lists. Changes to this option take effect immediately.
For the effects of this option, see Allow and Deny list handling.
•Optionally, specify one or more external SNMP manager IP addresses. For each external SNMP manager that you want to use with HCP, specify the IPv4 or IPv6 address that you want HCP to use to connect to that SNMP manager.
You specify each external SNMP manager IP address as a separate entry in the SNMP trap addresses list. To add an IP address to the SNMP trap addresses list:
1.In the Trap Addresses field, type the IP address. Each entry in this list must be a single IP address. IP address ranges and comma-separated lists are not valid.
2.Click Add.
The IP address moves into the list below the field.
To remove an external SNMP manager IP address from the list, click the delete control ( ) for that IP address. To remove all the IP addresses from the list, click Delete All.
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Note: IP addresses that appear in both the Trap Addresses list and the Deny list do not receive trap notifications. |
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