SNMP Interface

Configuring SNMP Agent
Accessing the Server MIB

The CommuniGate Pro Server internal information can be accessed via the built-in SNMP server ("agent").

The SNMP agent receives requests from SNMP clients ("managers") and either returns the information about internal states, counters, problems, or modifies the internal settings by a client request.

By default, the CommuniGate Pro SNMP agent is not activated.

Configuring SNMP Agent

To configure the SNMP agent, use the WebAdmin Interface. Open the Obscure page in the Settings section and find the SNMP Agent panel:

Port

Use this setting to specify the UDP port the SNMP agent should use.
By default, SNMP agents are expected to receive incoming requests on the port 161.
If your server computer is already running some other SNMP agent, you may want to specify a non-standard port number here and reconfigure your SNMP Manager software to use that port number.
If you set the port number to 0, the CommuniGate Pro SNMP agent software disactivates itself.

Log

Use this setting to specify what kind of information the SNMP agent should put in the Server Log. Usually you should use the Major or Problems (non-fatal errors) levels. But when you experience problems with the SNMP agent, you may want to set the Log Level setting to Low-Level or All Info: in this case protocol-level or link-level details will be recorded in the System Log as well.

The SNMP agent records in the System Log are marked with the SNMP tag. Please note that SNMP is a binary protocol, so all low-level data is presented in the hexadecimal form.

Password

Use this setting to specify the SNMP "community name". The CommuniGate Pro SNMP agent accepts only those SNMP requests that contain the proper "community name" data.

Accessing the Server MIB

The MIB (Management Information Base) is a text file describing the internal objects the SNMP agent can display, monitor, and/or modify. You need the CommuniGate Pro MIB file to properly configure the SNMP client ("manager") you want to use for server monitoring.

Different versions of the CommuniGate Pro software support different sets of internal objects, and CommuniGatePro Server generates its MIB by a user request, presenting the most current information.

To access the CommuniGate Pro MIB file, use the WebAdmin interface to access the CGatePro-MIB.txt file:
http://yourservername:8010/CGatePro-MIB.txt

Save this file to a monitoring workstation disk and use it to configure your SNMP manager software.