User's Manual

ADVANCED FUNCTIONS: SNMP
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SNMP
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is an application layer
protocol that facilities the exchange of management information between
network devices. It is part of TCP/IP (Transmission Control
protocol/Internet Protocol) suite and enables you to control and monitor the
network in a simple way.
On the SNMP page, you can edit the basic Agent information and also
configure up to 6 SNMP trap receiver’s IP Addresses. When a trap
condition occurs, your router will send an SNMP trap message to any NMS
(Network Management System) specified as trap receivers, for example,
when power supply errors occur.
Notes
▪ NMS (Network Management System) is an SNMP management
application together with the computer it runs on.
▪ Currently the Company AP Router supports SNMPv1
(SNMP version 1) and SNMPv2 (SNMP version 2) which
have a number of features in common except for some
enhancements.
And moreover, you can specify different community names for
authenticating access to the management information, which function as
embedded passwords:
▪
Read: Gives you READ access to all the management
information, but does not allow WRITE access.
▪ Write: Gives you both READ and WRITE access to all the
management information.
Note – The community name definitions on your NMS must
match at least one of the above two community name
definitions.
What do you want to do?
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Configure Agent Information, SNMP Trap Host IP Addresses
and Community Names on Your Router