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C HAPTER 14<br />

Configuring the SNMP<br />

Agent<br />

About this chapter This section introduces SNMP concepts and explains how to configure<br />

the <strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong> SNMP agent. It also explains what needs to be<br />

done to allow the <strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong> to send or route messages to remote<br />

systems in an external network. The following topics are covered:<br />

SNMP and<br />

<strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong><br />

“SNMP and <strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong>” on page 14-1<br />

“Setting up the SNMP agent on <strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong>” on page 14-8<br />

“About the management station” on page 14-10<br />

“Communication with systems in an external network” on page 14-<br />

11<br />

The <strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong> supports SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c. SNMP is the<br />

industry standard for network management. You can set up SNMP<br />

agent s<strong>of</strong>tware that allows the <strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong> to be monitored by<br />

SNMP compliant network management stations located on an internal<br />

or external network. You can also configure the <strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong> to<br />

route SNMP messages between a management station inside the<br />

<strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong> and an SNMP agent on a system in an external<br />

network.<br />

Note: The SNMP agent cannot run in the Firewall burb. Although only one SNMP agent is<br />

allowed to operate on the <strong>Sidewinder</strong> <strong>G2</strong>, access through other burbs is supported using<br />

the UDP proxy. In addition, SNMP will only accept requests addressed to the first interface<br />

in a burb.<br />

14<br />

Configuring the SNMP Agent 14-1

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