Security Compliance
SNMP alert monitoring SEM
This article discusses using SNMP to monitor Security Event Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager) status, disk usage, or other OID with the Orion Web Console or some other SNMP collector.
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This article discusses using SNMP to monitor SEM status, disk usage, or other OID with the Orion Web Console or some other SNMP collector.
Environment note: SNMP collector or Orion Platform with NPM.
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SNMP support was added to SEM in version 6.3.0. The service menu in the CMC command-line interface now includes the snmp command to enable the SNMP Request Service on the SEM appliance. You can configure SNMP version 3 on your SEM appliance to communicate with SolarWinds Network Performance Manager (NPM) through ports 161 and 162. This configuration allows you to monitor CPU, memory, and other critical components from the SolarWinds Orion Web Console.
SEM versions older than version 6.3.0 do not support SNMP monitoring. Older versions of SEM can be used to send SNMP trap alerts to other devices when rules fire, but they do not support sending any health or status updates over SNMP.
For information on configuring this function, see Monitor SEM from NPM and the Orion Web Console using SNMP.