7: Services

 

NMS

When SNMP is enabled, an NMS (Network

 

 

Management System) acts as a central server,

 

 

requesting and receiving SNMP-type information from

 

 

any computer using SNMP. The NMS can request

 

 

information from the SLB branch office manager and

 

 

receive traps from the SLB device. Enter the IP

 

 

address of the NMS server. Required if you selected

 

 

Enable Traps.

 

 

 

 

Location

Physical location of the SLB branch office manager

 

 

(optional). Useful for managing the SLB device using

 

 

SNMP. Up to 20 characters.

 

 

 

 

Contact

Description of the person responsible for maintaining

 

 

the SLB branch office manager, for example, a name

 

 

(optional). Up to 20 characters.

 

 

 

 

Alarm Delay

Number of seconds delay between outgoing SNMP

 

 

traps.

 

 

 

Communities

 

 

 

 

 

Trap

The trap used for outgoing generic and enterprise

 

 

traps. Traps sent with the Event trigger mechanism still

 

 

use the trap community specified with the Event action.

 

 

The default is public.

 

 

 

 

Read-Only

A string that acts like a password for an SNMP

 

 

manager to access the read-only data the SLB SNMP

 

 

agent provides. The default is public.

 

 

 

 

Read-Write

A string that acts like a password for an SNMP

 

 

manager to access the read-only data the SLB SNMP

 

 

agent provides and to modify data where permitted.

 

 

The default is private.

 

 

 

Version 3

 

 

Security

Levels of security available with SNMP v. 3.

 

 

No Auth/No Encrypt: No authentication or encryption.

 

 

Auth/No Encrypt: Authentication but no encryption.

 

 

(default)

 

 

Auth/Encrypt: Authentication and encryption.

 

 

 

 

Auth with

For Auth/No Encryp or Auth/Encrypt, the

 

 

authentication method:

 

 

MD5: Message-Digest algorithm 5 (default)

 

 

SHA: Secure Hash Algorithm

 

 

 

 

Encrypt with

Encryption standard to use:

 

 

DES: Data Encryption Standard (default)

 

 

AES: Advanced Encryption Standard

 

 

 

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