User's Manual

32 Chapter 3 Device Manager basics
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Opening a device
“Opening” a device displays the device view, a picture of the device. To open the
device view, you must enter community strings that determine the access level
granted to the device. Table 2 shows the default access community strings for the
Device Manager software.
SNMP Retry Count Number of times Device Manager retransmits polling information.
Timeout Length of each retry of each polling waiting period. When accessing the
device through a slow link, you may want to increase the timeout interval
and then change the Retransmission Strategy to superlinear.
Trace Enables (checked) or disables (not checked) SNMP tracing. When Trace
is selected, SNMP protocol data units (PDUs) are displayed in the
Device > Log dialog box.
Register for Traps Specifies whether or not Device Manager should automatically register to
receive traps when Device Manager is launched against a switch.
Max Traps in Log The specified number of traps that can exist in the trap log (default is
500).
Trap Port Specifies the UDP port that Device Manager will listen on to receive
SNMP traps.
Confirm row
deletion
When this check box is selected, a confirmation dialog box is displayed
when you try to delete a row from a Device Manager table.
Table 2 SNMP community string default values
Access level Description
Read-only public
Read-write private
Read-write-all secret
Table 1 Properties dialog box items (continued)
Area Item Description