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USING THE M208’S ADDITIONAL OPTIONS: Managing With SNMP 141
1 Login to the M208 through an npsh session as a root user.
2 At the npsh prompt, enter:
store pserver novell fserver add
fservername
where fservername is the name of the Novell file server you want to add as a pre-
ferred file server.
This adds the specified file server as a preferred file server on the M208.
3 Repeat steps 1 and 2 to add additional preferred file servers.
For more information, please see store pserver novell fserver add fservername on
page 121.
Managing With SNMP
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol for internetwork man-
agement services. This protocol provides a means for computers (or agents) to be
managed remotely by managers. The level of management depends on the manager
and agent and can go from providing information such as statistics to providing full
management capabilities of the agent.
MIB (Management Information Base) files are a description of managed objects avail-
able in an agent. MIB files provide the data for the manager so they can remotely man-
age the agent. A MIB file is simply a formal description of the way an agent can be
accessed using SNMP and what functions can be managed.
The M208 is a fully manageable SNMP agent that supports MIB-II, custom MIB’s
and traps.
MIB II Support
The M208 is MIB II compliant allowing SNMP managers to monitor protocol, net-
work, and routing statistics.
Custom MIBs and Traps
The M208 provides a custom MIB definition file which consists of several variables
and traps. In fact, the MIB file represents all of the possible configuration options such
as hub settings, destination settings, network configurations, print queue status, load-
ing of defaults, etc.