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Changing the Command Line Interface Port      Troubleshooting: Managing NerveCenter Port Connections

Specifying SNMP Ports for NerveCenter

NerveCenter has two primary sources of information about network conditions:

You can change the ports that NerveCenter uses for receiving traps and sending polls.

 
  To specify SNMP port settings for NerveCenter:

  1. Open NerveCenter Administrator and connect to the appropriate NerveCenter Server. See Connecting Administrator to a NerveCenter Server on page 38.
  2. Select the Ports tab.

    The Ports tab is displayed.

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  3. In the SNMP Poll field, enter the number of the port you want NerveCenter to use to communicate with SNMP agents. This port is used to get or set SNMP information.

    The value entered here specifies the port on the node to which NerveCenter sends SNMP polls. You can change the port for any particular node in the node's definition window in NerveCenter Client.

    Open recommends that you keep the default port number 161.

  4. In the SNMP Trap field, enter the number of the port you want NerveCenter to use for receiving SNMP traps. This setting has no effect if NerveCenter is co-resident with HP OpenView Network Node Manager. OpenView has the trap port and an internal NerveCenter process enables NerveCenter to receive a copy of the trap.

    The default port number is 162.

  5. Select Save.

NerveCenter handles SNMP data according to these settings.


Changing the Command Line Interface Port Troubleshooting: Managing NerveCenter Port Connections
29 July 2003