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Editing SNMP information

You can use the Edit SNMP Settings dialog box in Storage Manager to update information about the storage system location and contact personnel, and to specify the SNMP communities of your system.

About this task

Storage Manager uses the SNMP protocols SNMPv1 and SNMPv2c and an SNMP community to discover storage systems.

  1. Click .
  2. In the Setup pane, click SNMP.
  3. Click Edit .
  4. In the General tab, specify the contact personnel information and location information for the storage system, and the SNMP communities.

    The community name can be of 32 characters and must not contain the following special characters: , / : " ' |.
  5. In the SNMPv3 tab, do the following:
    1. Click Add to add an SNMPv3 user.
    2. Specify the username and modify the engine ID, if required.
    3. Select the Authentication Protocol and enter your credentials.
    4. Select the Privacy Protocol and enter your credentials.
    5. Click OK to save the changes.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Verify the changes that you made to the SNMP settings in the SNMP window.