42Chapter 3 Device Manager basics

Table 2 Properties dialog box items (continued)

Area

Item

Description

 

 

 

SNMP

Retry Count

Number of times Device Manager retransmits polling information.

 

 

 

 

Timeout

Length of each retry of each polling waiting period. When accessing the

 

 

device through a slow link, you may want to increase the timeout interval

 

 

and then change the Retransmission Strategy to superlinear.

 

 

 

 

Trace

Enables (checked) or disables (not checked) SNMP tracing. When Trace

 

 

is selected, SNMP protocol data units (PDUs) are displayed in the

 

 

Device > Log dialog box.

 

 

 

 

Register for Traps

Specifies whether or not Device Manager should automatically register to

 

 

receive traps when Device Manager is launched against a switch.

 

 

 

 

Listen for Traps

Specifies whether or not Device Manager should automatically listen for

 

 

traps when Device Manager is launched against a switch.

 

 

 

 

Max Traps in Log

Specifies the maximum number of traps that can exist in the trap log

 

 

(default is 500).

 

 

 

 

Trap Port

Specifies the UDP port that Device Manager will listen on to receive

 

 

SNMP traps.

 

 

 

 

Listen for Syslogs

This feature is inactive and not available.

 

 

 

 

Confirm row

When this check box is selected, a confirmation dialog box is displayed

 

deletion

when you try to delete a row from a Device Manager table.

 

 

 

 

Default Read

Specifies the default read community, either public or private.

 

Community

 

 

 

 

 

Default Write

Specifies the default write community, either public or private.

 

Community

 

 

 

 

Opening a device

“Opening” a device displays the device view, a picture of the device. To open the device view, you must enter community strings that determine the access level granted to the device. Table 3 shows the default access community strings for the Device Manager software.

Table 3 SNMP community string default values

Access level

Description

 

 

Read-only

public

 

 

Read/write

private

 

 

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Nortel Networks 380-24F Opening a device, Device Manager basics Properties dialog box items, Access level Description