Professional Access Point

Administrator Guide

the option.

Field

Description

Enable SNMP

SNMP provides a way for the access point to store management information

 

and to provide the information to a network-management system (NMS). (See

 

http://www.snmplink.org/ for more general information on SNMP.)

 

Choose to either enable (default) or disable use of Simple Network Manage-

 

ment Protocol:

 

 

Read-only Community Name (entire

If SNMP is enabled, enter the name of the community that is allowed to make

MIB)

information queries against the MIB.

 

The community name acts an as authentication mechanism. The name func-

 

tions as a password, and a request is considered authentic if the requester

 

knows the password.

 

The community name is alphanumeric; do not use special characters or

 

spaces.

 

 

Allow SNMP SET Requests

Choose to either enable or disable the honouring of SNMP SET requests:

 

Enable—Machines on the network that provide the correct community name

 

can issue SET requests.

 

Disable—(default) SET requests are not honoured.

 

SET requests are restricted to the USR5453-SYSTEM MIB and USR5453-

 

WIRELESS-CHAN MIB..

 

 

Read-write community name (for per-

If SET requests are enabled, enter the name of the community that is allowed

mitted SETs)

to make SET requests.

 

The community name acts an as authentication mechanism. The name func-

 

tions as a password, and a request is considered authentic if the requester

 

knows the password.

 

The community name is alphanumeric; do not use special characters or

 

spaces.

 

 

Designate source of permitted SNMP

Choose to either enable or disable designating the source of the SNMP

requests

requests:

 

Enable—(default) A machine must be designated in the Source field in order

 

for its requests to be honoured.

 

Disable—Any machine in the network may issue requests.

 

 

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