Remote Management - Dell SonicWALL GX250 Manual

Remote Management

SonicWALL SNMP Support
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a network protocol over User
Datagram Protocol (UDP) that provides network administrators with the ability to
monitor the status of the SonicWALL appliances and receive notification of any critical
events as they occur on the network. SonicWALL Internet security appliances support
SNMP v1/v2c and all relevant Management Information Base II (MIBII) groups except
egp and at. The SonicWALL replies to SNMP Get commands for MIBII via any interface
and supports a custom SonicWALL MIBII for generating trap messages.
To configure SNMP in the SonicWALL Internet security appliance, log into the
SonicWALL management interface. Click Access, then Management. The SNMP
configuration panel is displayed.
The SonicWALL SNMP agent generates two traps: Cold Start Trap and Alert Traps.
Cold Start Traps indicates that the SonicWALL appliance is re-initializing itself so that
the agent configuration or the appliance may be altered. Alert Traps are based on the
existing SonicWALL alert messages which allows the trap messages to share a common
message string with the alerts. Accordingly, no trap message can exist without a
corresponding alert message.
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