About SNMP Trap Registration

You can manually register the IP addresses or host names and port numbers of external management applications to enable them to receive Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps from the library. By default, the library ignores all SNMP SET operations, so external management applications cannot register themselves.

NOTE: You may use a host name instead of an IP address only if the library is set up to use Domain Name System (DNS) servers. See Modifying Network Settings for more information.

For instructions on how to manually register an external management application, see Registering Management Applications.

After registering the IP addresses, you can perform a test to verify that the SNMP traps were sent to all registered IP addresses. You must check the external management applications to verify that the traps were received. For instructions on how to test whether SNMP traps were successfully sent to a management applications, see Testing Management Applications.

You can also delete management applications that are currently registered. See Deleting Management Applications for more information.

NOTE: The library's SNMP Management Information Base (MIB) is available from the web client and the Scalar i500 Documentation and Training CD and can be installed on your management application. For more information about the library's SNMP MIB, see About the SNMP MIB. For more detailed information about the library's SNMP support, see the Scalar i500 Basic SNMP Reference Guide.

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