Creating an SNMP transport

ACOS supports integration with third-party monitoring and alerting platforms (such as Zabbix) using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). By creating an SNMP transport, SNMP clients can receive monitoring information from the cluster.

Prerequisite

You have configured SNMP in the monitoring tool that you want to use.

Procedure

1. Click a cluster to access its page, then select Settings from the tab bar, and select SNMP transport.

2. In the SNMP transport tab, click Create transport and enter the following information in the pop-up dialog box.

   Field	Description
   Name	The name of the SNMP transport being created.
   Protocol	Currently, only the UDP protocol is supported and cannot be changed.
   Port	The port number for the transport, which is 161 by default. A port can only be utilized by one SNMP transport.
   Version	v2c or v3.
   Group (Available only when choosing the v2c version)	The name of the group used to access the remote SNMP manager.
   Username (Available only when the v3 version is chosen)	The username for the new SNMP user.
   Password (Available only when the v3 version is chosen)	The password used for authentication.
   Authentication protocol (Available only when the v3 version is chosen)	MD5 or SHA, the protocol used for encrypting the user password to ensure the security of user identities.
   Privacy protocol (Available only when the v3 version is chosen)	DES or AES, the method for encrypting SNMP messages.
   Private key (only v3)	The key used for encryption.

3. Click Create to complete the creation.