The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an Internet standard that provides a common way to query, monitor, and manage devices connected to IP networks. The protocol is defined in RFC 2571. For additional information, see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2571.txt.

To capture filesystem level information on your media servers and any other servers in your environment, you must enable SNMP.

Using SNMP v2c messaging, Discovery queries all media servers and other servers or devices and retrieves information about the physical attributes of their configured storage units and file systems. The SNMP probe uses UDP and the standard SNMP Port 161 by default.

There are different SNMP probes for different operating systems. The way that you enable and configure SNMP services on your servers to take advantage of these probes depends on your operating system.