06-28-2015 11:50 PM - edited 03-18-2019 04:39 AM
Hello,
I just want to get som input on the question of using SNMP with TC systems. As far as i know, TMS management of TC systems is done over HTTP/HTTPS, however the units support SNMP and it's activated by default. My question is of SNMP is used anyway in some way by the TMS to monitor the systems. I found the following in the TMS admin guide:
Scan SNMP Capable Systems to Allow Quick Discovery of Inaccessibility
This setting will allow Cisco TMS to more quickly detect whether a system has gone offline. Enabling this is recommended.
Does this mean that the TMS will notice more quickly that a SX20 with SNMP is down than if will if the SX20 has SNMP disabled? Is there any other impact on the TMS managebility if i turn SNMP off?
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06-29-2015 12:27 PM
That is it really - functionality is the same, phonebooks, config changes, scheduling, etc, but TMS will recognize a down/offline system more quickly, so if you are using TMS to give your staff a heads up about a problem using SNMP will give you faster notification. Other than that the functionality is the same.
06-30-2015 03:43 AM
That is correct, TMS uses, if enabled, SNMP for system discovery only, nothing else, you can set SNMP mode to "ReadOnly" on the systems as a precautionary measure.
/jens
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06-29-2015 12:27 PM
That is it really - functionality is the same, phonebooks, config changes, scheduling, etc, but TMS will recognize a down/offline system more quickly, so if you are using TMS to give your staff a heads up about a problem using SNMP will give you faster notification. Other than that the functionality is the same.
06-29-2015 11:05 PM
Okay, just to clarify, so you mean that the SNMP is just monitoring the systems availability but config changes and everything else you listed is done over HTTP/HTTPS?
06-30-2015 03:43 AM
That is correct, TMS uses, if enabled, SNMP for system discovery only, nothing else, you can set SNMP mode to "ReadOnly" on the systems as a precautionary measure.
/jens
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06-30-2015 05:16 AM
Okay great, that fits together with what i have thought except that the TMS actually uses SNMP for modern systems too. But i will sure set it to read only on the units, I had that in mind but i didn't want to do anything untill i knew for sure.
Thank you!
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