SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor: Deployment and Administration

Enabling and configuring SNMP on Cisco devices

Switches, routers, and firewalls should also be monitored, as they are crucial to the uptime of a network. This section covers command line procedures to enable and configure SNMP on some common Cisco devices.

Due to a wide range of manufactures and models, with varying configurations, your organization may use devices that are not listed in procedures referenced in this section. If that is the case, you should consult the manufacturer's website or user's manual.

Tip

Most vendors (including Cisco) ship equipment with these default SNMP community strings:

• public for read-only
• private for read-write
• secret for read-write-all

It is important to change these defaults due to security implications.

Enabling and ...