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SNMP

IP Fabric appliance can be monitored using SNMP protocol. CPU, memory, hard drives and network interfaces can be monitored. Appliance uses standard Linux OS OIDs.

To enable SNMP on IP Fabric, go to Settings → System → SNMP, click the on/off toggle and select 2c, or 3 from the Version list:

SNMP

Security note

Only IP address specified in the Host IP field is enabled to have access to SNMP 161/udp.

If you selected version 2c, please configure:

  1. Host IP - IP address of remote monitoring server
  2. Locality - location of IP Fabric appliance
  3. System Contact - contact to responsible person or department
  4. Community string - must match community string configured on monitoring server
  5. Click Save

Version 2c

If you selected version 3, please configure:

SNMP v3

For user authentication, only SHA is supported. For data privacy, AES is used.

  1. Host IP - IP address of remote monitoring server
  2. Locality - location of IP Fabric appliance
  3. System Contact - contact to responsible person or department
  4. Username - SNMP v3 user
  5. Passphrase - authentication and privacy passphrase
  6. Click Save

Version 3

Username and Password character restrictions

Username must contain only the following characters a-zA-Z0-9_- with $ being allowed at the very end of the username.

Password must contain only the following characters A-Za-z0-9.,/_@%^:=+ -.