Why SNMP must be enabled

For System Manager to discover storage systems, you must ensure that the SNMP protocols SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c are enabled and an SNMP community is created on the storage system.

SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c protocols are less secure compared to SNMPv3 protocol. In storage systems running Data ONTAP 8.1 or a later version in the Data ONTAP 8.1 family, SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c protocols are enabled by default. In storage systems running Data ONTAP 8.2, SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c are disabled by default. SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c are enabled when an SNMP community is created.

You must use the command-line interface (CLI) to enable SNMP because System Manager does not support enabling SNMP.

Parent Topic: Understanding System Manager

Related concepts

Storage system discovery

Related tasks

Creating an SNMP community for clustered Data ONTAP 8.2