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To configure the system to send SNMP notifications, follow these steps:
Table 30-1 lists the traps the RFC-defined SNMP traps and the command used to enable each. Note that the 
coldStart and warmStart traps are enabled using a single command.
Enable a subset of Dell Force10 enterprise specific SNMP traps using one of the listed command options 
Table 30-2 with the command 
snmp-server enable traps. Note that the envmon option enables all 
environment traps including those that are enabled with the 
envmon temperature option.
Step Task Command Command Mode
1 Configure the Dell Force10 system to send 
notifications to an SNMP server.
• Enter the keyword 
traps to send trap messages. 
• Enter the keyword informs to send 
informational messages.
• Enter the keyword version to send the SNMP 
version to use for notification messages.
• Enter the name of the 
community-string to 
identify the SNMPv1 community string.
snmp-server host ip-address 
[traps | informs] [version 1 | 2c 
|3] [community-string]
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2
Specify which traps the Dell Force10 system sends 
to the trap receiver.
• Enable all Dell Force10 enterpriseSpecific and 
RFC-defined traps using the
 command 
snmp-server enable traps from 
CONFIGURATION mode.
• Enable all of the RFC-defined traps using the 
command snmp-server enable traps snmp 
from CONFIGURATION mode.
snmp-server enable traps
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3
Specify the interfaces out of which FTOS sends 
SNMP traps.
snmp-server trap-source 
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Table 30-1.  RFC 1157 Defined SNMP Traps on FTOS
Command Option Trap
snmp authentication
SNMP_AUTH_FAIL:SNMP Authentication failed.Request with invalid community string.
snmp coldstart
SNMP_COLD_START: Agent Initialized - SNMP COLD_START.
SNMP_WARM_START: Agent Initialized - SNMP WARM_START.
snmp linkdown
PORT_LINKDN:changed interface state to down:%d
snmp linkup
PORT_LINKUP:changed interface state to up:%d