Monitoring The Security Appliance; Using Snmp; Snmp Overview - Cisco PIX 500 Series Configuration Manual

Monitoring the Security Appliance

This chapter describes how to monitor the adaptive security appliance, and includes the following
sections:
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Using SNMP

This section describes how to use SNMP, and includes the following topics:
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SNMP Overview

The adaptive security appliance provides support for network monitoring using SNMP V1 and V2c. The
adaptive security appliance supports traps and SNMP read access, but does not support SNMP write
access.
You can configure the adaptive security appliance to send traps (event notifications) to an NMS, or you
can use the NMS to browse the MIBs on the adaptive security appliance. MIBs are a collection of
definitions, and the adaptive security appliance maintains a database of values for each definition.
Browsing a MIB entails issuing an SNMP get request from the NMS. Use CiscoWorks for Windows or
any other SNMP V1, MIB-II-compliant browser to receive SNMP traps and browse a MIB.
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each context. You can download Cisco MIBs from the following website.
http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/netmgmt/cmtk/mibs.shtml
After you download the MIBs, compile them for your NMS.
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Using SNMP, page 42-1
Configuring and Managing Logs, page 42-5
SNMP Overview, page 42-1
Enabling SNMP, page 42-3
lists supported MIBs and traps for the adaptive security appliance and, in multiple mode, for
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