Cisco Nexus 3548 - Configuring SNMP; Information about SNMP; SNMP Functional Overview

CHAPTER 13
Configuring SNMP
This chapter contains the following sections:
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Information About SNMP, page 117
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Licensing Requirements for SNMP, page 121
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Guidelines and Limitations for SNMP, page 121
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Default SNMP Settings, page 122
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Configuring SNMP, page 122
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Disabling SNMP, page 133
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Verifying the SNMP Configuration, page 133
Information About SNMP
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application-layer protocol that provides a message
format for communication between SNMP managers and agents. SNMP provides a standardized framework
and a common language used for the monitoring and management of devices in a network.
SNMP Functional Overview
The SNMP framework consists of three parts:
• An SNMP manager—The system used to control and monitor the activities of network devices using
SNMP.
• An SNMP agent—The software component within the managed device that maintains the data for the
device and reports these data, as needed, to managing systems. The Cisco Nexus device supports the
agent and MIB. To enable the SNMP agent, you must define the relationship between the manager and
the agent.
• A managed information base (MIB)—The collection of managed objects on the SNMP agent
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