Cisco Cisco Email Security Appliance C690 User Guide

appliance). After the condition has been met, the SNMP agent then forms an 
SNMP packet and sends it over port 162, the standard SNMP trap port. In the 
example below, the trap target of 

snmp-monitor.example.com

 and the Trap 

Community string are entered. This is the host running the SNMP management 
console software that will receive the SNMP traps from the Cisco IronPort 
appliance. 

You can configure SNMP traps (enable or disable specific traps) when you enable 
SNMP for an interface. To specify multiple trap targets: when prompted for the 
trap target, you may enter up to 10 comma separated IP addresses.

In the following example, the 

snmpconfig

 command is used to enable SNMP on 

the “PublicNet” interface on port 161. A passphrase for version 3 is entered and 
then re-entered for confirmation. The system is configured to service version 1 
and 2 requests, and the community string 

public

 is entered for GET requests from 

those versions 1 and 2. The trap target of 

snmp-monitor.example.com

 is entered. 

Finally, system location and contact information is entered.

mail3.example.com> snmpconfig

Current SNMP settings:

SNMP Disabled.

Choose the operation you want to perform:

- SETUP - Configure SNMP.

[]> setup

Do you want to enable SNMP? [N]> y