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12,000 private addresses and Symmetricom is by comparison one of the earlier adopters of SNMP with
an Enterprise MIB!
RFC – Request for Comments: A document reviewed and released by the IANA that defines the formal
definitions of various Internet communication protocols and related information.
SNMP – Simple Network Management Protocol: This Internet communications protocol is used for
the status and control of remote network devices. Numerous IANA standards committees starting in
1990 and continuing to day define this protocol.
Trap or Trap Message: A packet issued from an SNMP Management agent to an SNMP Management
station. The message is intended to relay and important even that occurred within the agent that requires
attention or notification.
Configuring and Testing SNMP
This section outlines the procedure to perform verification tests on the SNMP component of the XL-GPS
product.
Prerequisite: XL-GPS unit, PC with HP OpenView installed, located on the same subnet.
HP OpenView Configuration
Create the Network Map
1. Power on the XL-GPS unit.
2. Log on to the PC with HP OpenView installed as the “Administrator” user.
3. Start the HP OpenView Network Node Manager application.
4. Select the menu item Map->New
5. In the “Name” field, enter “xlGpsTestMap”
6. Click the <Next> button 3 times and the <Finish> button 1 time to complete the Map definition and
open the Map.
Load the Symmetricom Enterprise MIBs
1. Select the menu item Options−>Load/Unload MIBs: SNMP. A dialog box titled “Load/Unload
MIBs:SNMP” will pop up.
2. In the dialog box click the <Load> button to load the MIBS: symmetricomTtm-SMIv2.mib, xlGps-
SMIv2.mib, xlGpsMainCard-SMIv2.mib, and xlGpsSystem-SMIv2.mib.
3. When xlGpsSystem-SMIv2.mib is loaded a dialog box with the title “Load Trap-Type/Notification-
Type macro?” will appear. Click the <OK> button to add the trap definition into the OpenView event