Report Title: Using SNMP In Network

Management System

NIT2124 – Network Management

Semester 01 – Block 02
Victoria University (Sydney Campus)
Lecturer: Noman Haider

s4627456- Mikhayal Shrestha

 Table of Contents

Contents
1. Title................................................................................................................................................4
2. Introduction  (Approx. word count: 200).......................................................................................4
3. Implementation Scenario (Approx. word count: 300)...................................................................4
Device Configuration:........................................................................................................................4
List all the device configurations done for all the devices.................................................................4
IP Addressing Table:..........................................................................................................................4
SNMP agent configurations:..............................................................................................................4
Community string configurations for SNMP agent:...........................................................................4
Object Identifier (OID) Table:.............................................................................................................4
List the details of the objects which are being managed on related agents. Details of object which
are being managed (OID, Description, Names, etc) on each of the devices on the network.............4
4. Results (Approx. word count: 300)................................................................................................5
5. Problems Experienced and Solutions to Resolve them..................................................................5
6. Conclusion (Approx. word count: 100)..........................................................................................5
7. References.....................................................................................................................................5
1. SNMP in Network Management System
The main goal of this experiment is to show how SNMP can be used across the networks
in Large companies in the system. We can get a clear view how SNMP is used to monitor
the network, detect network faults and sometimes even used to configure remote
devices.

2. Introduction  (Approx. word count: 200)    

The ABC company has three offices which includes one main office and two other
branches in Glebe and Redfern. The purpose of this experiment is to show how the
Network Manager is able to monitor all the networks in three offices using Simple
Network Management Protocol(SNMP). This report has the step by step procedure of
how we became able to achieve this. There are process of all the configurations carried
out, problems faced and how we overcame that to make our experiment successful. We
have used the cisco packet tracer and snmp server in this project.

3. Implementation Scenario (Approx. word count: 300)

So, first of all I created the above given network topology in my cisco packet tracer. All the
devices (ie. PCs, Routers and Switches) were connected with eachother where we used the
Serial cables for router to router and used copper-straight through for the rest connection. In
order for them to function properly in a network we configured all the devices with their
Hostname and IP address.

For the Network Manager PC as it is in network 192.45.61.0/24 we gave it the ip address

192.45.61.3.
For its switch we gave the IP address 192.45.61.2.
For its router , that is main router we gave the IP 192.45.61.1 which also acts as the gateway
for the switch and PC. We also used RIP protocol to configure the routers.
Rest of the IP configuration were done in the same manner for Glebe And Redfern.
The screenshort for this process is displayed below.
So, I just put the IP of all the devices in the network in the same manner ie. Last digit 1 for
routers ,
Last digit 2 for switches and last digit 3 for PCs.

To configure the community string t configuration in SNMP agents(ie. routers and switches)
we applied the following commands shown in the screenshots in each and every switches and
routers.
That command is used to configure the Community Strings. I did that in all the routers and
switches.

In order to access the details of all the objects which are being managed on the agents we
need to open the
Network Manager PC and open the MIB browsing. There we can see the advanced bar just
below the Address box where you need to put the address of the agent you want to access and
the read and write community strings.So in case of MNGT switch, you can put its address
and read and write switch and see the OID by following the screenshots.
After this you need to go to switch_L2 MIBs drop down arrow and all the way to .system and
choose the object which OID you after and choose operation as get which is default and press
“Go”. You can also see the interfaces object doing the same.
For routers as well it’s the same
4. Results (Approx. word count: 300)

a. To change the name GLEBE_SW to ACCOUNT_SW. you need to change the address from
manager pc to glebe addressin the MIB Browsing.

Then go to .sysName and click on SET operation

Don’t forget to change data types from BITS to OctetString.
And press go then you will see the Name change which is MIKHAYAL_SW in my case.

b. Changing REDFERN_SW to HR_SW

The process is the same as above change the addresss in MIB Browsing of Manager PC .
And follow the same steps as above.
The result screenshots are
You can see the name REDFERN_SW change to HW_SW
c. Chnaging GLEBE office router name to CORE_RTR.

The process is the same as in screenshots

d. Changing the interface mode of g0/0 of redfern office router from up to down.
You can see the int g0/0 going down.
5. Problems Experienced and Solutions to Resolve them

There werenot any major problems in this experiment but when we set the operation few times
I got the request timeout error which was fixed by again pressing the go button.

6. Conclusion
We can conclude from the experiment that we can make a PC as a manager and control each
and every other devices in a network using SNMP. All the operations can be monitored and
controlled which can be very useful especially in large networks where you have several
branches to lookout from your headquarter.