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
- Navigate to the Monitoring panel. From the menu bar at the top of the IBM® WebSphere® DataPower® XC10 Appliance user interface, navigate
to .
- Expand SNMP Communities.
- Click Create community.
- 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.
- Click 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.