Configuring SNMP Traps and SNMP Requests
SNMP requests can be used to query the Security Appliance on its system status information.
If you want to send only the cold start, link up, and link down generic traps, no further
configuration is required. SNMP traps send information about a particular event only when
the configured threshold is reached.
To configure a Security Appliance to receive SNMP requests from a management station, you
must do the following:
■ Configure the IP address of the SNMP management station with the snmp-server host
command.
■ Set the snmp-server options for location, contact, and the community password as
required.
To configure SNMP traps on the PIX, you must do the following:
■ Configure the IP address of the SNMP management station with the snmp-server host
command.
■ Set the snmp-server options for location, contact, and the community password as
required.
■ Set the trap with the snmp-server enable traps command.
■ Set the logging level with the logging history command.