Nortel Networks NN46225-300 manual Opening a device

36 Starting Device Manager

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	If selected, you can perform trace
	routes.
Listen for Traps	If selected, Device Manager will listen
	for a trap.
	When you operate Device Manager
	from a UNIX platform, you must be
	logged in as root in order to receive
	traps.
	By default, traps are sent in SNMP
	V2c format. However, if you are using
	an older network management system
	(NMS) that supports only SNMP V1
	traps (HP OpenView), you can select
	that the traps be sent in V1 format.
	The management station operating with
	Device Manager is automatically added
	to the device trap receiver table.
Max Traps in Log	The maximum number of traps that can
	exist in the trap log. The default is 500.
Listen for Syslogs	If selected, Device Manager will listen
	for syslogs.
Default Read Community	The default Read Community type.
	You can edit this field by highlighting
	the current value and typing over it.
Default Write Community	The default Write Community type. You
	can edit this field by highlighting the
	current value and typing over it.
Http Port	Specify the port to use for the web
	interface. To access the device home
	page with WEB UI, Http Port must be
	the same as the switch configuration.

Opening a device

Opening a device displays the device view, a picture of the device. Before you can display the device view, you must enter community strings that determine the access level granted to the device. Use this procedure to open a device

Nortel Metro Ethernet Routing Switch 8600

Fundamentals — Using Device Manager

NN46225-300 02.02 Standard

4.21 October 2007

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