Netopia R2020 manual Snmp Setup screen, Community strings

Monitoring Tools 13-13

The SNMP Setup screen

To go to the SNMP Setup screen from the Main Menu, select SNMP in the System Configuration screen and press Return.

Main

Menu

System

Configuration

SNMP

SNMP Setup
System Name:
System Location:
System Contact:
Read-Only Community String:	public
Read/Write Community String:	private
Authentication Traps Enable:	Off
IP Trap Receivers...

Configure optional SNMP parameters from here.

Follow these steps to configure the first three items in the screen:

1.Select System Name and enter a descriptive name for the Netopia R2020’s SNMP agent.

2.Select System Location and enter the router’s physical location (room, floor, building, etc.).

3.Select System Contact and enter the name of the person responsible for maintaining the router.

System Name, System Location, and System Contact set the values returned by the Netopia R2020 SNMP agent for the SysName, SysLocation, and SysContact objects, respectively, in the MIB-II system group. Although optional, the information you enter in these items can help a system administrator manage the network more efficiently.

Community strings

The Read-Only Community String and the Read/Write Community String are like passwords that must be used by an SNMP manager querying or configuring the Netopia R2020. An SNMP manager using the Read-Only Community String can examine statistics and configuration information from the router, but cannot modify the router’s configuration. An SNMP manager using the Read/Write Community String can both examine and modify configuration parameters.