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• Access Mode – Specifies the access rights for the community string:
- Read-Only – Authorized management stations are only able to
retrieve MIB objects.
- Read/Write – Authorized management stations are able to both
retrieve and modify MIB objects.
Web – Click SNMP, Configuration. Add new community strings as
required, select the access rights from the Access Mode drop-down list,
then click Add.
Figure 3-26 Configuring SNMP Community Strings
CLI – The following example adds the string “spiderman” with read/write
access.
Specifying Trap Managers and Trap Types
Traps indicating status changes are issued by the switch to specified trap
managers. You must specify trap managers so that key events are reported
by this switch to your management station (using network management
platforms such as SMC EliteView). You can specify up to five
management stations that will receive authentication failure messages and
other trap messages from the switch.
Console(config)#snmp-server community spiderman rw 4-141
Console(config)#