About SNMP

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The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), when enabled on the filer, allows the following process to take place:

1. The agent on the filer gathers information specified in the custom MIB on the filer.

2. The agent forwards the information it gathers to network management stations using the SNMP protocol.

3. The applications on the network management stations filter the information using user-defined traps and carry out the actions specified by the traps.

What SNMP supports

For diagnostic and other network management services, Data ONTAP supports the SNMP MIB-II and the custom Network Appliance MIB specification.

Data ONTAP supports the following SNMP limitations:

• Up to eight communities

• Trap notifications for up to eight management stations

FilerView enables you to manage the following SNMP elements:

• Configure SNMP

• Traps