Configuring SNMP communities

You can define access to the Simple Network Monitoring Protocol (SNMP) data on your appliance by creating one or more SNMP communities. An SNMP community is required when monitoring is enabled.

Before you begin

Configure an SNMP client before completing these steps. These steps can be completed without an SNMP client configured, but SNMP monitoring can only be used if a client has been configured.

About this task

A community is required to authenticate with the SNMP agent embedded on the appliance and access the SNMP data. The SNMP agent embedded on the appliance expects the client to provide a defined community name to authenticate with the agent before it returns the requested data. If a community is not provided, the SNMP agent ignores the request from the client. The SNMP communities are unique to the appliance and do not get propagated among the other appliances in the collective.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the Monitoring panel. From the menu bar at the top of the IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® XC10 Appliance user interface, navigate to Appliance > SNMP Monitoring.
  2. Expand SNMP Communities.
  3. Click Create community.
  4. Complete the form to describe the SNMP community that you would like to create.
    Name
    This field specifies the name used to describe an SNMP community.
    Host restriction
    This field specifies an IP address to be used for communication in IPv4 format and IPv6 format. It also accepts host names that resolve to a host. You can further restrict access to a specified subnet by using a Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) IP address or host name. If a host restriction is included, communication with any other IP address or subnet is denied. If you leave this field empty, then you allow communication with all IP addresses.
  5. Click the remove icon (the remove icon.) to remove an SNMP community. Existing communities cannot be modified. If a community must be modified, then it must be removed and then recreated.
Parent topic: Monitoring with Simple Network Monitoring Protocol (SNMP)
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