Configuration Option Tables

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Table A-7. General SNMP Management Options (2 of 2)
Community Name 2
Possible Settings: ASCII Text, Clear
Default Setting: [blank]
Community Name of external SNMP Managers allowed access to the DSU’s MIB. This
community name must be supplied by an external SNMP manager attempting to access
a MIB object. Level of access is set in the next option, Name 2 Access.
ASCII Text – Enter a maximum of 130 ASCII printable characters. Refer to
Entering
Device and System Information
in Chapter 3.
Clear – Clears the Community Name 2 field.
Name 2 Access
Possible Settings: Read, Read/Write
Default Setting: Read
Set the access level for the Community Name 2 created in the previous option.
Read – Allows a read-only access (SNMP Get, Getnext) to accessible MIB objects.
Read/Write – Allows SNMP Get, Getnext, and Set functions on MIB objects. Write
access allowed to all MIB objects specified as read-write in the MIB RFC.
SNMP NMS Security Options
For SNMP NMS Security Options, refer to Table A-8. To access the SNMP NMS
Security Options screen, follow this menu selection sequence:
Main Menu
→
Configuration
→
Load Configuration From
→
Edit
→
SNMP
→

SNMP NMS Security

Table A-8. SNMP NMS Security Options (1 of 2)
NMS IP Validation
Possible Settings: Enable, Disable
Default Setting: Disable
Determines if security checks are performed on the IP address of any SNMP
management system that attempts to access the node.
Enable – Performs security checking. Allows access only if the sending manager’s
IP address has been entered in the NMS IP address list.
Disable – No security checking of incoming SNMP messages.
Number of Managers
Possible Settings: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Default Setting: 1
Set the number of SNMP managers that are authorized to send SNMP messages. The
IP address of each SNMP management system must be entered in the next option.
1 to 10 – Specifies the number of SNMP managers allowed to send SNMP messages.