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Create a Policy

After you completed your global SNMPv3 settings, apply the SNMPv3 settings to policies.

Follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Resources, Configuration in the user interface.

   The Policy page appears.

2. Expand Policy, Policies, SystemEDGE in the navigation pane.

   The SystemEDGE page appears listing the available policies.

3. Click to create a policy.

   The New SystemEDGE Policy dialog appears.

4. Specify the required data to create a policy and click OK.
5. Open the policy that you want to apply to one or more managed systems and click Traps & Communities.

   The Communities page appears with the table of SNMP settings and the following options:

   • Include only Server Communities
   • Include Server Communities and all Default Communities
   • Custom Selection

   Note: The only default (global) SNMP settings from the table that are included in the configuration are those settings with a port that matches the agent port.

6. Select Custom Selection.

   This option allows you to select global SNMPv3 objects only and clear any server-specific SNMP settings.

7. Select at least one SNMPv3 settings object with the appropriate port specified for each of your target systems and click Save Policy.

   The selected SNMPv3 objects are associated with the policy.

8. Click the Trap Destinations tab.

   The Trap Destinations page appears. You can configure SNMPv3 Trap Destinations.

9. From the Trap Type field, select SNMPv3 Trap Info or SNMPv3 Notification Info (also referred to as INFORM requests and confirmed traps).

   Depending on the selection, the following fields appear:

   Destination

   Specifies the host to which to send the trap. You can specify a host name or an IP address.

   Port

   Specifies the port number on the destination host that you want to send the trap.

   Username

   Specifies the SNMPv3 user with which to send the trap.

   Encoding

   Specifies the type of encoding to use when sending traps.

   Default: 000

   This encoding is similar to configuring the trap encoding in SNMPv1. See also SystemEDGE User Guide, Configure SNMPv1 Trap Destinations.

   Context

   * (asterisk) is the only supported value for this field. This value is mandatory.

   Timeout

   (Notifications only) Specifies how long in seconds to wait for a confirmation of notification delivery before timing out.

   Retries

   (Notifications only) Specifies the number of times to retry sending a notification after a timeout.

10. Fill out the fields and click Add.

    A new entry appears in the Trap Destinations table.

    You can repeat the last step to add more entries to the table.

11. Select one of the Trap Destinations and click Save Policy.

    The policy is saved with the appropriate trap destination.

You can distribute the policy to the appropriate server group.