Appendix B ’SNMP Management’ — Enabling HP Blade Center SNMP Agent
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Enabling HP Blade Center SNMP Agent
In addition to the Electra VS SNMP agent, the HP blade center provides
an SNMP agent that can be used to monitor the hardware.
To use it, you need to enable SNMP and to set a number of parameters.
This configuration is made through the HP configuration interface of the
device. Proceed as follows:
1.
Open the HP configuration interface, as explained in section
’Connecting to the HP Monitoring Tools’
on page 473.
2.
From the tree menu on the left, under
Enclosure Information
,
select
Enclosure Settings
and then
SNMP Settings
.
3.
Check the
Enable SNMP
box.
4.
Fill in the
System Location
,
System Contact
,
Read
Community
and
Write Community
fields.
5.
In the
Community String
field, enter the IP addresses of the SNMP
Managers so that they can receive the system alerts and click
Add
.
6.
Repeat this step for each trap addressee to add.
For further details on SNMP management of the HP blade center, refer to
the HP documentation.