Control of simple network management protocol activity

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9038136-B2
Application number	US-201313899867-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 22, 2013
Priority date	May 22, 2013
Publication date	May 19, 2015
Grant date	May 19, 2015

Abstract

A server system may be configured to receive configuration information. The server system may also be configured to determine if the configuration information includes SNMP configuration information. The server system may be further configured to disable SNMP activity and close an SNMP port if it determines that the configuration information does not include SNMP configuration information. Therefore, in the absence of any configuration information which specifies that SNMP should be available, SNMP activity is disabled and the SNMP port is closed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a server, configuration information while a simple network management protocol (SNMP) port of the server is closed, wherein the SNMP port was previously closed by default upon starting the server;
determining, by the server, if the configuration information includes SNMP configuration information; and
disabling, by the server, SNMP activity and closing an SNMP port if the server determines that the configuration inform…

Assignees

• Deisinger Mark V
• Smith Allyn D
• Unisys Corp

Inventors

• Deisinger Mark V
• Smith Allyn D

Classifications

• H04L41/08

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L41/34

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L41/0213

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/1441 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L41/0803

  Electricity · mapped topic