Cisco Nexus 5600 Series - Enabling SNMP Notifications

Procedure
PurposeCommand or Action
Enters global configuration mode.switch# configuration terminal
Step 1
Maps an SNMP context to the management VRF or
default VRF. Custom VRFs are not supported. The
switch(config)# snmp-server context
context-name vrf vrf-name
Step 2
names can be any alphanumeric string up to 32
characters.
Maps an SNMPv2c community to an SNMP context
and identifies the group to which the community
switch(config)# snmp-server
community community-name group
group-name
Step 3
belongs. The names can be any alphanumeric string
up to 32 characters.
Maps an SNMPv2c community to an SNMP context.
The names can be any alphanumeric string up to 32
characters.
switch(config)# snmp-server mib
community-map community-name
context context-name
Step 4
The following SNMPv2 example shows how to map a community named snmpdefault to a context:
switch# config t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
switch(config)# snmp-server context def vrf default
switch(config)# snmp-server community snmpdefault group network-admin
switch(config)# snmp-server mib community-map snmpdefault context def
switch(config)#
The following SNMPv2 example shows how to configure and inband access to the community comm which
is not mapped:
switch# config t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
switch(config)# snmp-server context def vrf default
switch(config)# snmp-server community comm group network-admin
switch(config)#
The following SNMPv3 example shows how to use a v3 username and password:
switch# config t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
switch(config)# snmp-server context def vrf default
switch(config)#
Enabling SNMP Notifications
You can enable or disable notifications. If you do not specify a notification name, Cisco NX-OS enables all
notifications.
The snmp-server enable traps CLI command enables both traps and informs, depending on the configured
notification host receivers.
Note
The following table lists the CLI commands that enable the notifications for Cisco NX-OS MIBs.
Cisco Nexus 5600 Series NX-OS System Management Configuration Guide, Release 7.x
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Configuring SNMP
Enabling SNMP Notifications