Select this check box to enable the MCU to send traps.

If you do not check this box, no traps will be sent.

Select this check box to enable authentication

You cannot select this check box unless you have

failure traps.

selected to Enable traps above. Authentication

 

failure traps are generated and sent to the trap

 

receivers when someone tries to read or write a

 

MIB value with an incorrect community string.

 

 

Enter the IP address or hostname for up to four

The traps that are sent by the MCU are all SNMP

devices that will receive both the general and the

v1 traps. You can configure trap receivers or you

authentication failure traps.

can view the MIB using a MIB browser. You can

 

set the UDP port number for the trap in the

 

format <IP address>: <port number>. By

 

default the UDP port number is 162.

Community string/password that gives read-only access to all trap information.

Community string/password that gives read/write access to all trap information.

Note that SNMP community strings are not secure. They are sent in plain text across the network.

It is advisable to change the community strings before enabling SNMP as the defaults are well known.

Community string/password that is sent with all traps.

Some trap receivers can filter on trap community.

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