Perfect.  Thanks Phil, and Aaron.

Joe Heaton
Employment Training Panel

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:14 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Cisco Catalyst command question

It depends on what exactly you're going to do snmp-wise.

"snmp-server enable traps" enables the sending of SNMP traps, and
"snmp-server host" sets the host to send them to.

If you are going to generate bandwidth graphs with Cacti, MRTG or
something similar all you need to do is set the SNMP community, like so:

snmp-server community public RO

If you want to limit which hosts can perform snmp queries, you would do
something like this:

access-list 1 permit 192.168.0.0 0.0.0.255
snmp-server community public RO 1

Joe Heaton wrote:
> I need to enable SNMP on my Catalyst.  I've found 3 SNMP commands, and
> need to know which/how to use them:
> 
>  
> 
> Snmp-server enable traps - Is this the command to enable SNMP?  How do
I
> use this generically, to simply turn snmp on so that my network
> monitoring tool can identify the box, and monitor the ports?
> 
>  
> 
> Snmp-server host - Do I need to specify the machine that's going to be
> doing snmp queries, or can I just leave it open?  Is it dangerous not
to
> specify a host?
> 
>  
> 
> Snmp-server community - self explanatory, to set the community string,
> with the access rights.

-- 

Phil Brutsche
[email protected]


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