5-4-10. SNMP
SNMP is a protocol that governs the transfer of information between management and agent. The switch supports SNMP V1. Any Network Management station running the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) can manage the switch provided that the Management Information Base (MIB) is installed.
Use this menu to define management stations as trap managers and to enter SNMP community strings. Users can also define community strings for a name, location, and contact person for the switch.
1.System Options – The length of each can be 26 characters. Name: Enter a name to be used for the switch.
Location: Enter the location of the switch.
Contact: Enter the name of a person or organization.
2.Community strings serve as passwords and can be entered as one of the following:
Read only: Enables requests accompanied by this string to display MIB- object information.
Read write: Enables requests accompanied by this string to display MIB- object information and to set MIB objects.
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