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Overview
- This article provides information on how to configure SNMP on Sophos XG Firewall.
What to do
- Go to System > Administration > Device Access and enable SNMP on LAN zone.
- Configure XG firewall as a SNMP agent (configured in System > Administration > SNMP).
- Agent Port: <SNMP service port on XG>
- Manager Port: <SNMP service port on SNMP manager>
- Configure SNMP Community on Sophos XG Firewall (configured in System > Administration > SNMP)
- Name: <name of the SNMP Community>
- IP Address: <IP address of SNMP manager>
- Run SNMP Manager and load XG MIB
- Now you are able to communicate with XG Firewall in your SNMP Manager.
Note:
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- Sophos XG Firewall accepts SNMP messages from SNMP manager in the same community.
- Protocol Version and Trap Support version should match those on SNMP manager.
- Sophos XG Firewall supports SNMP Get messages, but it does not support SNMP Set messages.
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You can configure XG Firewall as an SNMP agent.
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- Go to Administration > SNMP.You can import or export an SNMP agent, community, or user configuration as a tar file from Backup and firmware > Import export.
- Select Enable SNMP agent to configure XG Firewall as an agent.
- Enter a name.
- Enter the physical location of XG Firewall to identify its location.
- Enter the contact details of the person managing XG Firewall.
- XG Firewall receives requests from SNMP managers and authorized hosts over the Agent port, using UDP port 161.
- XG Firewall sends traps over the Manager port, using UDP port 162.Tip To turn on SNMP traps, go to System services > Notification list.
- Click Apply.