Dell PowerEdge FN I/O Module Configuration Guide 9.10(0.0)

The management station generates requests to either retrieve or alter the value of a management object and is called the SNMP manager. A network element that processes SNMP requests is called an SNMP agent. An SNMP community is a group of SNMP agents and managers that are allowed to interact. Communities are necessary to secure communication between SNMP managers and agents; SNMP agents do not respond to requests from management stations that are not part of the community.

The Dell Networking OS enables SNMP automatically when you create an SNMP community and displays the following message. You must specify whether members of the community may retrieve values in Read-Only mode. Read-write access is not supported.

22:31:23: %RPM1-P:CP %SNMP-6-SNMP_WARM_START: Agent Initialized - SNMP WARM_START.

To create an SNMP community:

Dell(conf)#snmp-server community my-snmp-community ro
                                 22:31:23: %RPM1-P:CP %SNMP-6-SNMP_WARM_START: Agent Initialized - SNMP WARM_START.
                                 Dell#show running-config snmp
                                 !
                                 snmp-server community mycommunity ro
                                 Dell#