Data Center Fabric Manager Professional User Manual - Supporting DCFM 10.3.x (53-1001355-01, October 2009)

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SNMP trap and informs registration and forwarding

You can configure the application to send SNMP traps and informs to other computers. To correctly

configure trap forwarding, you must configure the target computer’s IP address and SNMP ports. To

correctly configure informs, you must enable informs on the switch.

Registering the management server

NOTE

If the source IP address does not match the switch, the Management application does not forward

the SNMP traps.

NOTE

SNMP Informs is only supported on Fabric OS 6.3 or later switches discovered through SNMP v3. For

information about discovery through SNMP v3, refer to “Discovering fabrics” on page 39.

You can automatically register this server as the trap or informs recipient on all managed Fabric OS

devices.

To register the management server, complete the following steps.

1. Select Monitor > SNMP Setup.

The SNMP Setup dialog box displays.

2. Click the Management Server tab.

3. Select the Auto register server as SNMP trap or informs recipient check box, if necessary.

This check box is selected by default.

4. Enter the SNMP listening port number of the Server in the SNMP Listening Port (Server) field, if

necessary.

The default SNMP listening port number is 162 and is automatically populated.

5. Click OK on the SNMP Setup dialog box.

Registering a different Management application server

You can register any Management application server as the trap recipient on managed Fabric OS

devices. You can register different recipients for different fabrics.

To register a host server, complete the following steps.

1. Select Monitor > SNMP Setup.

The SNMP Setup dialog box displays.

2. Click the Other Recipients tab.

3. Select Add from the Action list.

4. Enter the IP address (IPv4 or IPv6 format) of the host server in the Recipient Server IP Address

field.