Dell 28XX manual Defining Communities, Defining a New Community, Open the Snmp Community

Defining Communities

Access rights are managed by defining communities in the Community Table. When the community names are changed, access rights are also changed.To open the SNMP Community page, click System → SNMP → Community in the tree view.

Figure 6-16. SNMP Community

•SNMP Management Station — A list of management station IP addresses.

•Community String — Functions as a password and used to authenticate the selected management station to the device.

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

–Read Only — The management access is restricted to read-only, for all MIBs except the community table, for which there is no access.

–Read Write — The management access is read-write, for all MIBs except the community table, for which there is no access.

–SNMP Admin — The management access is read-write for all MIBs, including the community table.

•Remove — Removes a community, when selected.

Defining a New Community

1Open the SNMP Community page.

2Click Add.

The Add SNMP Community page opens:

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