Chapter 5: Configuration

Communities Tab

5.18.2Communities Tab

Figure 5.73 Communities Options

The Communities tab provides a means of limiting access to SNMP managed devices to those SNMP Managers with matching “community names”, as specified by RFC 1157.

5.18.2.1Enable SNMP

Enabling Enable SNMP allows the device to respond to SNMP queries and to send Traps. After enabling this option and rebooting the device, the SNMP Agent will automatically start up. To disable this feature, remove the check mark from the check box.

5.18.2.2Adding A Community

Tap on Add to add a new ‘community’.

Figure 5.74 Add Community Dialog

Name

The value assigned here is the name assigned by the network administrator to the set of devices to which this managed node belongs.

Rights

This menu allows you to specify access—that is, ‘Read-Only’ or Read-Write’.

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