Setting up SNMP notifications using the DS CLI

One of the support options you can configure for your storage unit involves the notification of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) alert traps. SNMP notifications are alerts and notifications of thresholds that have been exceeded and exception events that have occurred. This task shows you how to set up your storage unit to receive these notifications as they occur.

You need to know your SNMP port and IP address as these are required when activating the notifications feature. This information specifies where a message is sent in the event of a problem.

To use the setsnmp command to activate the SNMP alert notification support option feature, perform the following steps:
  1. Log in to the DS CLI application in interactive command mode, if you are not already logged in.
  2. Specify where a message is sent in the event of a problem by issuing the setsnmp command at the dscli command prompt as follows:
    dscli>setsnmp –server 9.11.242.12:161 IBM.1750-68FA120
  3. Press Enter and a successful process displays the following message:
    Date/Time: Sun Aug 11 02:23:49 PST 2004 DS CLI Version: 5.0.0.0 
    DS: IBM.1750-68FA120
    
    The SNMP settings were successfully modified
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SNMP alerts
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Generic and specific alert traps
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