To prepare a Wavence NE for NFM-P management
General information
The following procedures describe how to prepare Wavence devices (and variants) for commissioning before NFM-P can manage them.
Perform this procedure to configure an SNMP user, the required security mediation policy, and discovery rule for a Wavence NE.
Note: Ensure that you create the mediation policy based on whether the Wavence device supports SNMPv2 or SNMPv3, along with the appropriate Trap mediation policy with community string.
Steps
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Create an SNMPv3 user on NFM-P.
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Choose Administration→Security→NE User Configuration from the NFM-P main menu. The NE User Configuration form opens.
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Click Create. The NE User, Global Policy (Create) form opens.
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Configure the parameters as required. For the Access parameter, you must choose the SNMP option.
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Click on the SNMPv3 tab and verify that the SNMPv3 user and user group have been created on the managed NE. When a user has been assigned the appropriate SNMPv3 permissions, you can configure the following authentication parameters:
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Authentication Protocol—Choose MD5 as the authentication protocol.
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Privacy Protocol—Choose No Privacy as the privacy protocol.
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Set New Authentication Password—enter and confirm a new authorization password.
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Click OK to close the form and click Search to confirm the creation of the SNMPv3 user.
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Configure an SNMPv3 mediation security policy for the SNMPv3 user created in
Step 1.
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Choose Administration→Mediation from the NFM-P main menu. The Mediation (Edit) form opens.
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Click on the Mediation Security tab and click Create. The Mediation Policy (Create) form opens.
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Configure the Displayed Name parameter to identify the policy and set the Security Model parameter to SNMP v3 (USM).
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In the SNMP panel, set the Port parameter to 161.
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In the SNMPv3 panel, click Select and choose the SNMPv3 user created in
Step 1 and click OK. The Mediation Policy (Create) form reappears.
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Save your changes and close the forms.
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Perform one of the following to configure SNMP management and to create a discovery rule for Wavence devices.
Note: NFM-P uses the default SNMPv2 mediation security policy to discover the Wavence.
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To configure a discovery rule that uses SNMPv3 management, see the
“Device discovery” chapter in the NSP NFM-P Classic Management User Guide.
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To configure a discovery rule that uses SNMPv2 management: Perform the following steps:
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Choose Administration→Discovery Manager from the NFM-P main menu. The Discovery Manager (Edit) form opens.
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Click Create. The Create Discovery Rule step form opens with the Specify General Attributes step displayed.
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Configure the parameter as required and click Next. The Add Rule Elements step appears.
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Click Create, configure the required parameters, and click OK. The Create Discovery Rule step form reappears.
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Click Next. The Add Auto Discovery Rule Elements ACL step appears.
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Optionally, click Create, configure the parameter as required, and click Next. The Configure Mediation Security step appears.
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Click Select and choose the mediation security policy created in
Step 2 in the Read Access, Write Access, Trap Access, and Security Access Mediation policy panels.
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Click Finish and close the form. All other steps on the Create Discovery Rule step form are optional for the Wavence.
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Use the NFM-P client to discover the NE and to verify that the NE configuration allows management of the Wavence; see the
“Device discovery” chapter in the NSP NFM-P Classic Management User Guide.
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