The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet Standard protocol for collecting and organizing information about managed devices on IP networks and for modifying that information to change device behavior. Smoothwall offers a SNMP service that acts as an agent to gather system status information, such as, system name, location, contact information, live TCP and UDP connection tables, detailed network interface and usage statistics, network routing table, disk usage information and memory usage information.
When you turn on the SNMP Smoothwall service, the Smoothwall becomes a managed device and any SNMP Network Management System device that is a member of the same SNMP community can query all management data.
To view information and statistics provided by the system's SNMP service, you need a third-party SNMP management tool. Refer to the product documentation that accompanies your preferred SNMP management tool.
Use this page to turn the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Smoothwall service on or off.
Prerequisites
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Adding new Smoothwall access rules:
- On the NETWORK menu, under the Firewall submenu, click Smoothwall access.
- Add an access rule for the following Services — SNMP (161).
Procedure
- On the SERVICES menu, under the SNMP submenu, click SNMP.
- Select Enabled and enter the SNMP Community password and click Save. This is a simple password control that enables SNMP devices sharing the same password to communicate with each other.