Fortinet Fortigate-5000 series - Snmp; Configuring SNMP

System Config SNMP
FortiGate Version 3.0 MR4 Administration Guide
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SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) allows you to monitor hardware
on your network. You can configure the hardware, or FortiGate SNMP agent, to
report system information and send traps (alarms or event messages) to SNMP
managers. An SNMP manager is a computer running an application that can read
the incoming traps from the agent and track the information. Using an SNMP
manager, you can access SNMP traps and data from any FortiGate interface or
VLAN subinterface configured for SNMP management access.
The FortiGate SNMP implementation is read-only. SNMP v1 and v2c compliant
SNMP managers have read-only access to FortiGate system information and can
receive FortiGate traps. To monitor FortiGate system information and receive
FortiGate traps you must compile Fortinet proprietary MIBs as well as Fortinet-
supported standard MIBs into your SNMP manager.
RFC support includes support for most of RFC 2665 (Ethernet-like MIB) and most
of RFC 1213 (MIB II) (for more information, see “Fortinet MIBs” on page 130.
Configuring SNMP
Go to System > Config > SNMP v1/v2c to configure the SNMP agent.
Figure 69: Configuring SNMP
Note: Part of configuring an SNMP manager is to list it as a host in a community on the
FortiGate unit it will be monitoring. Otherwise the SNMP monitor will not receive any traps
from that FortiGate unit, or be able to query it.
SNMP Agent Enable the FortiGate SNMP agent.
Description Enter descriptive information about the FortiGate unit. The
description can be up to 35 characters long.
Location Enter the physical location of the FortiGate unit. The system location
description can be up to 35 characters long.
Contact Enter the contact information for the person responsible for this
FortiGate unit. The contact information can be up to 35 characters.
Apply Save changes made to the description, location, and contact
information.
Create New Select Create New to add a new SNMP community.
See “Configuring an SNMP community” on page 128.
Communities The list of SNMP communities added to the FortiGate configuration.
You can add up to 3 communities.
Name The name of the SNMP community.