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Deciding whether to use the SNMP Configuration Express Guide

This guide describes how to configure SNMP at the cluster management level, how to add communities, security users, and traphosts, and how to test the SNMP communication.

You should use this guide if you want to configure SNMP access to a cluster in the following way:

  • You are working with clusters running ONTAP 9.4 or later.

  • You want to use best practices, not explore every available option.
  • You do not want to read a lot of conceptual background.
  • You want to use ThinkSystem Storage Manager for DM Series, not the ONTAP command-line interface or an automated scripting tool. This guide provides the common steps that you must perform to complete a task in any ONTAP 9.4 or later release. If you want the exact steps for navigating to a particular screen or window, you should view the Online Help of ThinkSystem Storage Manager for DM Series for your versionof ONTAP.

    Cluster Management Using ThinkSystem Storage Manager for DM Series

    Note
    There are a few steps in this guide for which you must use the command-line interface.

If this guide is not suitable for your situation, you should see the following documentation instead:

  • Network Management Guide

    Describes how to configure subnets, intercluster LIFs, routes, firewall policies, and other networking components. It also describes how to create an SNMP community for a data storage virtual machine (SVM) and how to manage SNMP traphosts.