AT-TQ2450 Wireless Access Point User’s Guide

Table 24. SNMP (Continued)

 

 

Field

Description

 

 

 

 

 

The community string is case sensitive.

 

You may not leave the field empty.

 

The default community string is “private.”

 

 

Restrict the source of

Use this option to increase the security of

SNMP requests to only the

the access point by restricting the use of

designated hosts or

SNMP management to specific subnets or

subnets

individual workstations. The options are

 

described here:

 

Enabled: Check this option if you want to

 

restrict the use of SNMP on the access

 

point to only those management stations

 

specified in the next field in the window.

 

Restricting SNMP applies to both read-

 

only and read-write community strings.

 

Disabled: Check this option to disable this

 

feature and permit any workstation to

 

manage the unit with SNMP. This is the

 

default setting.

 

 

Hostname, address, or

Use this field to specify the management

subnet of Network

workstations that are allowed to use

Management System

SNMP to manage the device. This field

 

only applies if you selected the Enabled

 

option in the previous field. You may

 

specify the management workstation by

 

hostname, IP address, or subnet address:

 

Here are the guidelines:

 

You may specify only one value in the

 

field.

 

You may specify an authorized SNMP

 

workstation by its DNS hostname (e.g.

 

smith.abc.com).

 

You may specify an authorized SNMP

 

workstation by its IP address (e.g.

 

149.23.45.102.)

 

 

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