Nortel Networks 380-24F Opening a device, Device Manager basics, 214392-A, Area, Description

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

214392-A