Skip to content

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

SNMP

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:

  1. NMS IPs – IP addresses of remote monitoring servers.
  2. Locality – Location of the IP Fabric appliance.
  3. System contact – Contact details (e.g., email) of a responsible person or department.
  4. Community string – Must match the community string configured on the monitoring server.
  5. Click Save.

Version 2c

If you selected version 3, please configure:

SNMP v3

AES is used for data privacy.

  1. NMS IPs – IP addresses of remote monitoring servers.
  2. Locality – Location of the IP Fabric appliance.
  3. System contact – Contact details (e.g., email) of a responsible person or department.
  4. Username – SNMPv3 user.
  5. Passphrase – Authentication passphrase.
  6. Encryption Passphrase – Privacy passphrase.
  7. Authentication Type – Authentication type (SHA 1, SHA 224, SHA 256, or SHA 512). Prefer the stronger algorithm, SHA 512.
  8. Click Save.

Version 3

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 .,/_@%^:=+ -