2.6 Configuring SNMP Community Strings

To enable AppManager to use SNMP to access CS1000 devices, configure your SNMP community string information in AppManager Security Manager before you discover CS1000 devices.

Use the following guidelines to configure your community strings for one or more variations:

  • If your read-only community string information is the same for all CS1000 devices, complete the following procedure once. Enter the following in the Sub-label field: default.

  • If your read/write community string is the same for all Signaling Servers, VGMCs, MGCs, and MC32Ss, complete the following procedure once. Enter the following in the Sub-label field: default write.

  • If your read-only or read/write community string information is different for different devices, complete the following procedure once for each different community string. Enter the device’s ELAN IP address in the Sub-label field.

On the Custom tab in Security Manager, complete the following fields:

Field

Description

Label

NetworkDevice

Sub-label

  • For all devices that use the same read-only community string, type default. Use the default sub-label for the read-only community string used on the greatest number of devices.

  • For all devices that use the same read/write community string, type default write. Use the default write sub-label for all Signaling Servers, VGMCs, MGCs, and MC32Ss that use the same read/write community string.

  • For a single device that uses a unique read-only community string, type the ELAN IP address of the Call Server, Media Gateway, NRS, ECM, or SIP Gateway.

  • For a single device that uses a unique read/write community string, type <IP address> write where <IP address> is the ELAN IP address of the Signaling Server, VGMC, MGC, or MC32S

Value 1

The configured community string for the CS1000 device you want to monitor.

  • To monitor a Call Server, Media Gateway (CS1000 version 4.50 and earlier), Network Routing Server (NRS), Enterprise Common Manager (ECM), or SIP Line server (SIPL), provide your configured SNMP read-only community string.

  • To monitor a Signaling Server, VGMC, Media Gateway Controller (MGC), or MC32S, provide your configured SNMP read/write community string. The read/write community string gives AppManager SNMP access to the MIBs on these devices.

  • To monitor a version 6.0 and later co-resident device that hosts a Signaling Server, provide your configured SNMP read/write community string.

Examples of community string configuration

  • To monitor multiple Signaling Servers that have the same read/write community string, type default write in the Sub-label field and type the read/write community string in the Value 1 field.

  • To monitor a Call Server that has a unique read-only community string, type the ELAN IP address of the Call Server in the Sub-label field and type the read-only community string in the Value 1 field.

  • To monitor a VGMC that has a unique read/write community string, type <IP address> write in the Sub-label field (where <IP address> is the ELAN IP address of the VGMC) and type the read/write community string in the Value 1 field.