Shelf Manager CLI
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Example SNMP network configuration
FortiGate-5000 series
Chassis
Shelf Manager
IP: 172.20.120.150
SNMP Manager
IP: 172.20.120.11
MAC: 00:1A:A0:2F:BC:C6
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For this example, the FortiGate-5000 series chassis is a FortiGate-5144C chassis with a FortiSwitch-5000 series board
in logical slot 1, FortiGate-5000 series boards in logical slots 6, 8, 10, and 11. The same settings will work for a
FortiGate-5140, FortiGate-5060 or FortiGate-5050 chassis after making adjustments for the slot numbers.
To configure the shelf manager to send SNMP traps you must configure shelf manager Platform Event Filtering (PEF) to
provide a mechanism for sending SNMP traps. To configure PEF you add an event filter table that sets the events that
trigger an action and the action to take. The events can be a FRU state change or a sensor alert. The action to take is to
send an SNMP trap to the SNMP server.
When a PEF triggers an alert, the shelf manager uses an Alert Policy to determine the action to take. An alert policy is a
collection of one or more alert destinations. You can create multiple alert policies and configure multiple destinations for
each policy. This section describes how to create one alert policy, called alert policy number 5. The alert policy number
is used in an Event Filter Entry to select the alert policy to use when an alert filter matches an event.
The combination of event filter entry and alert destination are used to select a given Alert String from a set of strings
kept in the PEF configuration parameters. This enables different strings to be sent based on what event filter was
matched and where the alert is being sent.
This example configuration of an Event filter table, Alert Policy table and Alert String table sends alerts following FRU
state changes. The alerts which will be sent from the shelf manager will be SNMP traps whose format is defined in the
Platform Event Trap Format specification. The example is for alert channel 1 which is the Eth0 interface of shelf
manager number 1.
The basic requirements for configuring SNMP traps are the same for all shelf manager firmware versions. However,
some more recent versions of the shelf manager firmware support more options (for example, you can set the Platform
Event Trap (PET) Format to different levels only on some shelf manager firmware releases).
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