SNMP
The IP Fabric appliance can be monitored using the SNMP protocol. CPU, memory, hard drives, and network interfaces can be monitored. The IP Fabric 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:
Security note
Only IP addresses specified in the NMS IPs field are enabled to have
access to SNMP port 161/udp
.
If you selected version 2c
, please configure:
- NMS IPs – IP addresses of remote monitoring servers
- Locality – location of IP Fabric appliance
- System Contact – contact details (e.g. email) of a responsible person or department
- Community string – must match community string configured on monitoring server
- Click Save
If you selected version 3
, please configure:
SNMP v3
For user authentication, only SHA is supported. For data privacy, AES is used.
- NMS IPs – IP addresses of remote monitoring servers
- Locality – location of IP Fabric appliance
- System Contact – contact details (e.g. email) of a responsible person or department
- Username – SNMPv3 user
- Passphrase – authentication passphrase
- Encryption Passphrase – privacy passphrase
- Click Save
Username and Password character restrictions
Username must match the following regular expression:
/^[A-Za-z0-9_][A-Za-z0-9\._-]*\$?$/
- it must start with one of these characters:
A-Z
a-z
0-9
_
- it may contain any of these characters:
A-Z
a-z
0-9
._-
$
is only allowed once at the very end
Password must match the following regular expression:
/^[A-Za-z0-9\.,\/_@%^:=+ -]*$/
- it must contain only these characters:
A-Z
a-z
0-9
.,/_@%^:=+ -