University of Bahrain

‫جامعة البحرين‬
College of Information Technology
‫كلية تقنية المعلومات‬
Department of Computer Engineering
Prepared by: Eng. Rola AlOmary
‫قسم هندسة الحاسوب‬

ITNE350

Experiment No. 2
Configure SNMP
Protocol on Cisco Packet
Tracer
Name & ID:
Mahdi Habib Ahmed - 20190981

Submitted to: Eng. Rola AlOmary

SEC:01

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Introduction:
Network monitoring is one of the mandatory process that people should include or perform in their
devices and specially in their organizations, where its very important to record every single event
occurred in the system, which will minimize the number of error happened, reduce the amount of
retransmitting and allow the managers to when something suspicious happened by trapping the
alerts, and many features that the monitoring provide to the network in term to troubleshoot and
maintain the network devices. SNMP is one of the most used protocols for monitoring the network
system. In this lab we are going to configure SNMP using packet tracer and know how to use the get
and set request in term to retrieve and modify some information in the agents’ systems from using
the manager system.

Objectives:

• Build the Network and Configure Basic Device Settings

Equipment used

• Cisco packet tracer

Background / Scenario
How to configure SNMP protocol on Packet Tracer? The Simple Network Management
Protocol (SNMP) is used for network monitoring and management. It is made up of 3 parts,
the SNMP manager, SNMP agent and Management Information Base (MIB). In Packet Tracer
there is not a lot you can actually do with SNMP but it is possible to set up a router or switch
as an SNMP agent and use a PC or laptop as an MIB browser. So although you can’t set
SNMP traps or informs it is still a valuable learning tool to show the sort of information that
can be retrieved and even a few things that can be set on an SNMP agent.

Procedure:
In this part, you will set up the network topology shown below and configure the devices with basic
settings. Then you will learn how to configure SNMP Manager and Agent and use the MIB browser for
getting and setting SNMP Agent information. Refer to the video posted by your lab demonstrator that
contains full explanation of this part.

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Discussion:
Task1: Build the Network and Configure Basic Device Settings

Create the following Topology within Cisco Packet Tracer. Then configure the basic IP setup
and routing configuration such as (IP address, subnet mask) according to the table below.

Take screenshots showing the window of setting up IP and routing configuration for SNMP
Manager, SNMP Agent, and Router2.

SNMP Manager

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SNMP Agent

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Router2

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Task2: Configure an SNMP Manager and define two communities as follows:

Configure SNMP Protocol on Routers (SNMP Agent and R2) by defining two communities for
the two routers as follows:

read ro write

rw

Use SNMP v2

Take screenshots showing the window of SNMP configuration for SNMP Agent and Router2.

SNMP Agent

Router2

Task3: Configure the SNMP agent and Management Information Base MIB

After the SNMP has been configured on the routers, now try to test it from the SNMP
Manager available in the PC using MIB Browser.

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Open the MIB browser page, expend MIB tree to system and select SysName then hit the GO
button to Get the name of SNMP Agent in the network. Take screenshot of the result
displayed.

Open the MIB browser page, expend MIB tree to system and select SysName then hit the GO
button to Get the name of Router2 in the network. Take screenshot of the result displayed.

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Change SysName of Router2 to SNMP Agent 2 using Set command. Take screenshot of the
new name in MIB browser page and CLI window for Router2.

MIB browser

CLI

Task4:
Find out how the SNMP Manager could find the following information about the agents in
Cisco Packet Tracer (MIB Browser).

Answer all the following questions using SNMP Agent device:

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 1. Get full information device description and hardware/software versions. (Take
screenshot)

2. Get information on how long the device (SNMP Agent) is being up. (Take screenshot)

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 3. Get the information about physical location of the SNMP Agent. (Take screenshot)

4. Get information about the physical interface type and description. (Take screenshot)

Types

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 Descriptions

Task5:
The SNMP Manager can get information available on its MIB browser available under SysContact.
What should be available under this value?

There will be information about the contact party or person for the specific node pointed, and there
will be information about the way to reach and contact them. So, this command will help to
determine, who from the staff should be contacted when an event of failure happened, maintenance,
repairs. We can say that this command used to enter the contact information about who is
responsible for the devise or who is the admin of it. You can use numbers, letters, characters, and
spaces to fill the information there. If there is no contact information, then value 0 will be shown or
the length string.

Task6:
Why is it preferable to solely use read-only access when working with SNMPv2?

SNMPV2 only enables unencrypted community strings; it is preferable to employ read-only access
when dealing with SNMPV2 since it avoids unauthorized changes in the event of an intruder. So its
preferable because of the more security, and security considered as one of the most important things
where we need to make sure that the information we have are saved in a secure environment and
place.

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Conclusion:

This lab was amazing, where I used cisco packet tracer again after using it in ITCE418 and ITNE351
courses, I really enjoy using this tool. It allows me to try many things and troubleshoot the problems
that I face during the configuration process. In this lab, I learned how to configure SNMP protocol in
the both the manger and the agents. Moreover, how to use the get and set request in order to
retrieve and modify the information related to the nodes. Finally, I faced one problem only, which
isn’t any connection between the routers. So, I established a connection between them using OSPF
protocol, in order to have full connection in the network and let the SNMP protocol function well (get
and set for task 3)

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