Configuration Basics

Completing an SNMP configuration on an Extreme Networks device involves defining users who will be authorized to receive SNMP notifications about network events, associating security (target) parameters, access rights and MIB views to those users, and specifying an IP address where they will receive notifications. The basic steps in this process are:

1. Creating a name that will act as an SNMP user password:
   • This will be a community name for an SNMPv1 or v2c configuration, or
   • A user name for an SNMPv3 configuration.
2. Creating a group for the user named in 1.
3. Creating access rights for the user group named in 2.
4. Defining MIB view(s) for the user group.
5. Creating a target parameters entry to associate security and authorization criteria to the users created in 1.
6. Verifying if any applicable SNMP notification entries exist, or creating a new one. You will use this entry to send SNMP notification messages to the appropriate targets configured in 5.
7. Creating a target address entry to bind a management IP address to:
   • The notification entry and tag name created in 6, and
   • The target parameters entry created in 5.
     

     Note

     Commands for configuring SNMP on Extreme Networks devices are independent during the SNMP setup process. For instance, target parameters can be specified when setting up optional notification filters — even though these parameters have not yet been created with the set snmp targetparams command. The steps in this section are a guideline to configuring SNMP and do not necessarily need to be executed in this order.