Linksys Advanced Configuration and Management of SRW208 Switches

Chapter 5 Advanced Configuration

performed via HMAC-SHA-96 authentication.

Password  Define the local user password. Local user passwords can contain up to 159 characters.

Authentication Key  Defines the HMAC-MD5-96 or HMAC-SHA-96 authentication level. The authentication and privacy keys are entered to define the authentication key. If only authentication is required, 16 bytes are defined. If both privacy and authentication are required, 32 bytes are defined. Each byte in hexadecimal character strings is two hexadecimal digits. Each byte can be separated by a period or a colon.

Privacy Key  Defines the Privacy Key (LSB). If only authentication is required, 20 bytes are defined. If both privacy and authentication are required, 36 bytes are defined. Each byte in hexadecimal character strings is two hexadecimal digits. Each byte can be separated by a period or colon.

The Add to List button adds the Group Membership configuration to the respective table at the bottom of the screen.

SNMP > Communities

The Communities screen contains three areas, Communities, Basic Table and Advanced Table.

SNMP > Communities

SNMP Management Station  Defines the management station IP address for which the advanced SNMP community is defined. There are two definition options:

•• Define the management station IP address.

•• All  Includes all management station IP addresses.

Community String  Defines the password used to authenticate the management station to the device.

Basic  Enables SNMP Basic mode for a selected community and contains the following fields:

Access Mode  Defines the access rights of the community. The possible field values are:

•• Read Only  Management access is restricted to read- only, and changes cannot be made to the community.

•• Read Write  Management access is read-write and changes can be made to the device configuration, but not to the community.

•• SNMP Admin  User has access to all device configuration options, as well as permissions to modify the community.

View Name  Contains a list of user-defined SNMP views.

Advanced  Enables SNMP Advanced mode for a selected community and contains the following fields:

Group Name  Defines advanced SNMP communities group names.

The Add to List button adds the Communities configuration to the respective Table at the bottom of the screen.

Base Table

Management Station  Displays the management station IP address for which the basic SNMP community is defined.

Community String  Displays the password used to authenticate the management station to the device.

Access Mode  Displays the access rights of the community.

View Name  Displays the user-defined SNMP view.

SNMP > Table

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